The vocabulary of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the racy terms of popular poetry, together with Latinisms and Lombardisms, were alike laid under contribution.
With these and other encouragements the popular poetryof England was not lost to sight; and in 1765 the work of the good Bishop of Dromore gave the ballads a place in literature.
Footnote 2: See the first essay, ‘What is “Popular Poetry”?
On the Continent, Herder was pioneer, both of the claims of popular poetry and of the nebular theory of authorship.
A similar transformation can be shown elsewhere in popular poetry.
I THINK it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on ‘popular poetry.
I soon learned to cast away one other illusion of 'popular poetry.
I think it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on 'popular poetry.
We may learn what qualities he considered necessary for an editor in this field, from the latter part of his Remarks on Popular Poetry, in which he discusses previous attempts to collect English and Scottish ballads.
An essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad was written, as were the Remarks on Popular Poetry, for the 1833 edition.
From the dry records of incipient prose it is refreshing to turn to another species of popular poetry; for poetry in the period of origins is always more adult than prose.
Not the least important branch of popular poetry in its bearing on the future of Italian literature was the strictly lyrical.
Hettner[15] mentions three English critics, in particular, as predecessors of Herder in awakening interest in popular poetry.
Here Scott catches the very air of popular poetry, and the dovetailing is done with most happy skill.
Was it court poetry or popular poetry, or are we to trace its origin to conditions which cannot well be brought under either of these categories?
In their present form these ballads show the characteristics of popular poetry to such an extent that they are scarcely distinguishable from folk-tales.
This theory does not exactly answer to our definition of Stage IV; but we may treat it under the same heading, as it likewise involves the development of heroic poetry out of popular poetry.
These all use the same language and alphabet; but the four latter have no distinct literature, except some collections of popular poetry.
The attention of the Russian literati has been for some time directed mainly by the Germans to their own treasures of popular poetry.
The Ukraine, and indeed Malo-Russia in general, and all the regions where Ruthenian tribes have settled, are particularly rich in popular poetry.
Herder, in his valuable Collection of popular Poetry, gave two historical fragments from the work of a Dalmatian clergyman, A.
In a letter to Miss Seward, Scott wrote of popular poetry: "Much of its peculiar charm is indeed, I believe, to be attributed solely to its locality.
In his "Essay on the Imitation of Popular Poetry," Scott showed that he understood the theory of ballad composition.
There is no more dangerous assumption in modern æsthetics than that of popular poetry and individual poetry, or, as it is usually called, artistic poetry.
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