Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937 / 2008-06-19 00:00:00
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THE LYRIC
AN ESSAY BY JOHN DRINKWATER
1922
CONTENTS
What is Poetry
The Best Words in the Best Order
The Degrees of Poetry
Paradise Lost
What is Lyric
The Classification of Poetry
Lyric Forms
Song
The Popularity of Lyric
Conclusion
WHAT IS POETRY?
If you were to ask twenty intelligent people, "What is the Thames?" the
answer due to you from each would be--"a river." And yet this would hardly
be matter to satisfy your enquiring mind. You would more probably say,
"What do you know of the Thames?" or, "Describe the Thames to me." This
would bring you a great variety of opinions, many dissertations on
geological and national history, many words in praise of beauty, many
personal confessions. Here would be the revelation of many minds
approaching a great subject in as many manners, confirming and
contradicting each other, making on the whole some impression of cumulative
judgment, giving you many clues to what might be called the truth, no one
of them by itself coming near to anything like full knowledge, and the
final word would inevitably be left unsaid.
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