The Sewanee Review, 1895-1896, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sewanee Review, 1895-1896, Vol. 4In the literary history of the nations certain stimuli have always evoked imaginative expression in poetry. Certain ideals, though the times were rude and crude the degree of civilization, have irresistibly inspired the makers of song and story. Nature is one such. Nature, with her elemental forces, her protean moods, her lovely witnesses in ¿ower, tree, and bird, in field and sky, in mountain height and limitless stretch of far resounding sea. Such, too, is man himself on his heroic, his martial, and mythic side blazoned in war by minstrel and weaver of epic poem rich with the stories showing forth the valor, faith, and patriotism of hu manity in a thousand perils and shifts of fate. Yet another such, and perhaps more alluring and fruitful as a motive' than any other in the cycle of themes meet for the lyric and dramatic expression of all times and peoples, is the subject of woman in all the manifold and Winsome connotations of the word. The eternal feminine has lured men on from Eden's day to our own. Rob literature, rob verse of this, and you leave them poor indeed. Colonel Higginson has said that the test of a civilization is the estimate of women, suggesting the thought that the apotheosis of the sex in song, is a registry of ethnic culture as well as of ethnic imagi nafion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.