Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781331042457

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Excerpt from English Songs of Italian Freedom The influence of poetry upon English life is smaller to-day than it was during the first eighty years of the nineteenth century. So little is poetry held in account by those who set the tone of thought and feeling to our generation, that when the Victorian age is condemned as narrow, parochial, and petty, it is scarcely held to be a plea in mitigation that it was the age of the Brownings and Tennyson, of Swinburne and Matthew Arnold, of Macaulay as a ballad-writer, of William Morris and Rossetti, of Carlyle and of Meredith. Nearly all these poets acquired the commanding influence only attained by writers characteristic of the epoch in which they live. It was not a mere accident that the public whom they inspired and represented was drawn during the 'fifties and 'sixties into a national enthusiasm for the cause of Italian freedom, a movement of political opinion as closely connected with literature and poetry as the anti-slavery movement of the previous generation had been connected with evangelical religion. 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.

Download or read book English Songs of Italian Freedom (Classic Reprint) written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Songs of Italian Freedom The influence of poetry upon English life is smaller to-day than it was during the first eighty years of the nineteenth century. So little is poetry held in account by those who set the tone of thought and feeling to our generation, that when the Victorian age is condemned as narrow, parochial, and petty, it is scarcely held to be a plea in mitigation that it was the age of the Brownings and Tennyson, of Swinburne and Matthew Arnold, of Macaulay as a ballad-writer, of William Morris and Rossetti, of Carlyle and of Meredith. Nearly all these poets acquired the commanding influence only attained by writers characteristic of the epoch in which they live. It was not a mere accident that the public whom they inspired and represented was drawn during the 'fifties and 'sixties into a national enthusiasm for the cause of Italian freedom, a movement of political opinion as closely connected with literature and poetry as the anti-slavery movement of the previous generation had been connected with evangelical religion. 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.