The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 40

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Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 40: Oct. 1874-July, 1875To determine the exact position of balladry in its pal miest days is not'a difficult matter, nor to discern what right it had to hold for so long a time, several centuries at least, such an important place, an impossibility. Those old bards had a remarkably easy and rapid way of get ting through their poetry. They fairly galloped across the pages. Witness The Young Tamlane. This old poem is said to be centuries old now, and, for two hun dred years, to have been sung in every valley and on every hill in the north of Scotland and yet in its smooth, lively movement it does not compare unfavorably with the live liest measures of John Milton. But this liveliness of movement is a physical beauty, an excellence merely in mechanical construction. Notice the higher qualities of old minstrelsy, the qualities to which it owes its chief beauty and its greatest power.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.