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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 evolution 1
RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
Definitions of poetry. The line between poetry and prose. Summary of the dispute. Rhythm fundamental and essential in poetry. Proofs from ethnology, psychology, and the history of poetry itself 30
THE TWO ELEMENTS IN POETRY
The dualism in its various forms. Poetry of nature and of art. Poetry of the people. Romantic and rationalistic theories. The real dualism 116
THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF THE POETRY OF ART
Communal and individual. Mediaeval and modern conditions. Evolution of sentimental lyric. Influence of Christianity. Reactions. Modern objective poetry. Humour 139
THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
SCIENCE AND COMMUNAL POETRY
Science and theories of poetic origins. Invention and imitation. Comparative literature and the art of borrowing. The war against instinct. Instinct not set aside. The dualism in poetry. Greek drama. Homogeneity of savages and of primitive men 347
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