Author: Thomas Campbell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780282933913

Excerpt from An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets It is li ely that the Normans would have taught us the use of rhyme amazqnmmwhcthertg'esehadbeen known or not to thean lo ans re nquest. T respectmg' Mr. T whitt's poem on we owe all our forms of verse and the use of rh yerentirely to the Nor mans, I trust the reader will pardon me for innotlrildingamere doubt one cubjectwhicheannot be interestingtomany. With respectto rh e, i might In some stress on the authority of Mr. Turner. Who, in his istory of the ngllo-saxons, ' says that the Anglaxon versification possessed occasional r yme; but as he admits that rhyme formed no rt its con ttituent character, for fear of assuming too much. Let it be 'tted that we have no extant specimensof rhyme m our language hem: the Conquest. One stanza of ahallad shall indeed be mentioned, as an exception to this, whichmaybeadmitted or rejected at the reader'spleasnre. Inthemean timeletitberecollecwd, that.ifwehavenotrh inthevernacularverse, wehaveexamplesot'it inthe poetry oftheangzlo-samn churchmen - shun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.