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THE BEGINNINGS OF POETRY
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THE
BEGINNINGS OF POETRY
BY
FRANCIS B. GUMMERE
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN HAVERFORD COLLEGE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1908
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1901,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1901. Reprinted
October, 1908.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
I ne have no text of it, as I suppose,
But I shal fynde it in a maner glose.
Canterbury Tales, 1919 f.
PREFACE
The opening pages of this book contain, so one may hope,an adequate answer to the objections of those who may havebeen led by its title to expect a more detailed treatment ofpoetic origins and a closer study of such questions as theearly forms of rhythm, the beginnings of national literatures,and the actual history of lyric, epic, and drama. Not theseproblems have been undertaken, interesting and importantas they are, but rather the rise of poetry as a social institution;whether or not a definite account of this process hasbeen obtained must be left for the reader to judge.
F. B. G.
9 September, 1901.
ix
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
 
Purpose and Method
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Object of the book. Historical and comparative treatment. Sources of help. Modern scientific aids. Limitations to their value. The evidence of poetry itself. The curve of evolution1
 
CHAPTER II
 
Rhythm as the Essential Fact of Poetry
 
Definitions of poetry. The line between poetry and prose. Summary of the dispute. Rhythm fundamental                        
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