Modern Spanish Lyrics
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Soo .1 observed that epic poetry, which is- oiective and objective in its nature, always reaches its luH; development in a nation sooner than lyric poetry, whieli, is individual and subjective. Such is certainly the case in Spain. Numerous popular epics of much merit existed there in the Middle A ges. Of a popular lyric there are few traces in the same period; and the Castihan lyric as an art-form...
MoreSoo .1 observed that epic poetry, which is- oiective and objective in its nature, always reaches its luH; development in a nation sooner than lyric poetry, whieli, is individual and subjective. Such is certainly the case in Spain. Numerous popular epics of much merit existed there in the Middle A ges. Of a popular lyric there are few traces in the same period; and the Castihan lyric as an art-form reached its height in the sixteenth, and again in the nineteenth, centuries. It is necessary always to bear in mind the distinction between the mysterious product called popular poetry, which is continually being created but seldom finds its way into the annals of literature, and artistic poetry. The chronicler of the Spanish lyric is concerned with the latter almost exclusively, though he will have occasion to mention the former not infrequently as the basis of some of the best artificial creations. If one were to enumerate iib origine the iyric productions of the Iberian Peninsula he might begin with the vague references of Strabo to the songs of its primitive inhabit The popular epics were wri Kenin assooatin Rlincj of variable length. There were also numeroua motikiah aanative poems mesler de dgre) in stanzas of foui AJ eia Ddriae lines each, ail rimiag cuadenia via).
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