The Golden Pomp

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Excerpt from The Golden Pomp: A Procession of English Lyrics From Surrrey to Shirley A word must be said upon the scope of this book, and another upon its arrangement. It is a book of Lyrics: and after comparing several definitions, I take the Lyric to be a short poem - essentially melodious in rhythm and structure - treating summarily of a single thought, feeling, or situation. This circumscription includes the Sonnet, and excludes the Ballad and the Ode, in which the treatment is sustained and progressive rather than summary. The line is notoriously hard to draw, but in practice we find it moderately easy to discern a Lyric such as 'Crabbed Age and Youth, ' or 'Come Sleep, O Sleep!' from an Ode (even though it be not a true Pindaric) such as Spenser's 'Epithalamion, ' or a Ballad such as Drayton's 'Agincourt.' The epoch of Italian influence upon English song - of that influence which first made itself felt in the verses of Surrey and Wyatt, and was not fairly quenched by the influence of France until the Restoration - falls naturally into two parts, two great creative days with no night between, - for the twilight in which Shirley sang was already trembling with the dawn of Milton. 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.