Excerpt from English Lyrics From Dryden to Burns At first this loss was not felt, for in London and at the court a school Of poets Sprang up in the sixteenth cen tury, who provided for the educated Classes beautiful lyrics in imitation Of French and Italian songs. They were helped and encouraged in this art by the fact that there was then a very general taste for music; and a number Of composers wrote excellent melodies for their words. Lyric poetry though Of a different kind from the Old popular songs was thus in a ...
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Excerpt from English Lyrics From Dryden to Burns At first this loss was not felt, for in London and at the court a school Of poets Sprang up in the sixteenth cen tury, who provided for the educated Classes beautiful lyrics in imitation Of French and Italian songs. They were helped and encouraged in this art by the fact that there was then a very general taste for music; and a number Of composers wrote excellent melodies for their words. Lyric poetry though Of a different kind from the Old popular songs was thus in a ourishing condi tion, not only at the court, and in the houses Of culti yated people, but also in the theaters, and in the homes Of shop-keeping Londoners. Almost all of the play wrights Of the time, including Shakespeare Of course, were excellent song-writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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