This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...foil. tives the latter is the true one. It was impossible for any ancient poet, as it is for any poet or indeed any artist at all, to start with a clear field, to leave the works of his predecessors out of count altogether. An artist, be he poet, painter, architect, or musician must, if he is to be great, have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...foil. tives the latter is the true one. It was impossible for any ancient poet, as it is for any poet or indeed any artist at all, to start with a clear field, to leave the works of his predecessors out of count altogether. An artist, be he poet, painter, architect, or musician must, if he is to be great, have in him the vital power of creation, the spirit of life; but he cannot any the more for this, except at his own peril, disengage himself from the antecedents of his art. This would be to disown the continuity of thought, to reject the glorious inheritance left to him, to waste his labour in perishable and abortive effort. This is especially true, I venture to think, of the two most inward and spiritual of the arts, poetry and music. No one blames Milton for absorbing into his poetry the forms and spirit of classical and Italian writings, or Beethoven for absorbing into his music the forms and spirit of Haydn and Mozart. If Vergil was imitative, he shares that quality with other great artists, and the fact, so far as it goes, is not his reproach but his highest praise. What however strikes and often offends a modern reader in Vergil is not so much that he imitates other poets, but that his imitations seem crude, obvious, and often inappropriate. In numberless instances he gives not merely subtle reminiscences (such as we find in Dante and Milton of Vergil himself) but direct translations from Greek poetry, especially from the Homeric poems, and whole phrases directly transferred from his Roman predecessors, Ennius, Lucretius, and Catullus. Incidents not seldom find a place in Vergil's narrative for no other apparent reason than because they or something like them have occurred in Homer; his similes are often either directly copied with more...
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