Part 46 (1/2)

What is Poetry?

The glowing language of ienerally found in measured lines, and often in rhy_, waretic

_Impassioned_, full of passion, animated

_Rhyme_, the correspondence of the last sound of one verse to the last sound or syllable of another

Name a few of the ancient poets

David was an inspired poet of the Hebrews: Homer, one of the earliest poets of the Greeks: Ossian, an ancient poet of the Scots: Taliesen, an ancient poet of the Welsh: and Odin, an early poet of the Scandinavians

Who were the Scandinavians?

The inhabitants of Scandinavia, the ancient naarded as the Fathers of Poetry?

The Greeks Homer was the first and the prince of poets; he celebrated the siege of Troy in the Iliad and Odyssey, two epic poems which have never been surpassed In the same kind of coil, in the Eneid; by Tasso, after another fifteen hundred years, in the 'Jerusalem Delivered' The Greeks also boasted of their Pindar and Anacreon in lyric poetry; and of Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles, and Eschylus, in drauished Poets?

Yes; a dramatists, Plautus and Terence; of didactic and philosophic poets, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, and Silius Italicus All these were so enius; and their works afford the models of their respective species of composition Most of the works of the ancients have in sentilish

_Miracles_, wonders

_Genius_, natural talent

_Respective_, particular

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Did not the same revolution which under, the arts and sciences, and the taste for elegance and luxury, also prove fatal to Poetry?

It did; the hordes of barbarians who overran Europe wiped out civilization in their progress, and literature, art, and science fled before the wild conquerors to find a refuge in the e was fostered with the love and ardor which religion alone can impart Finally, when the rude barbarians were converted, it was to the religious Orders that the world turned for the establishment of schools, and it is to the Church alone, in the person of her popes, her bishops, and her , and its revival in the fifteenth century

What celebrated Poets marked this revival?

In Italy, Dante, Ariosto, Petrarch and Tasso These were followed, in France, by Racine, Corneille, Boileau, Voltaire, La Fontaine and Delille; in England, by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thoe, &c; in Scotland, by Sir Walter Scott; in Ireland, by Thomas Moore; in Germany, Klopstock, Goethe and Schiller

Nauished poets of our own country