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The Beginnings of Poetry

The Beginnings of Poetry

by Francis Barton Gummere

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Author
Gummere, Francis Barton, 1855-1919
Credits
Produced by Turgut Dincer, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject
Poetry, Medieval
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 60662
Release Date
November 9, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BEGINNINGS OF POETRY
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I PURPOSE AND METHOD
  5. 5.CHAPTER II RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
  6. 6.CHAPTER III THE TWO ELEMENTS IN POETRY
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF THE POETRY OF ART
  8. 8.CHAPTER V THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI SCIENCE AND COMMUNAL POETRY
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII THE TRIUMPH OF THE ARTIST
  12. 12.INDEX
  13. 13.FOOTNOTES

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