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Excerpt from The Springs of Helicon: A Study in the Progress of English, Poetry From Chaucer to Milton
The volume is, as its title states, a study in the progress of English poetry. It forms one chapter in the subject with which the author proposed to deal during his tenure Of the Chair; that subject being the Progress Of Poetry, or in other words, the consideration Of poetry as a progressive func tion and continuous interpretation Of life. Poetry may be thus regarded, and it is thus that Gray regards it in his great Ode, whether in relation to the life of the individual from youth to age, to the life Of a single nation or language, or to the larger movement and progress of the life Of man kind as it successively embodies itself in different ages and countries, and is there re - embodied and reinterpreted by art. The progress of our own poetry between Chaucer and Milton is a single cycle.
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