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The Spirit of Romance: An Attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe (Classic Reprint)
The Spirit of Romance An Attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the PreRenaissance Literature of Latin Europe - Classic Reprint Author:Ezra Pound PRAEFATIO AD LECTOREM ELECTUM This book is not a philological work. Only by courtesy can it be said to be a study in comparative literature. I am interested in poetry. I have attempted to examine certain forces, elements or qualities which were potent in the mediaeval literature of the Latin tongues, and are, as I believe, still potent in our ow... more »n. The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or of mediocrity. The omniscient historian would display the masterpieces, their causes and their inter-relation. The study of literature is hero-worship. It is a refinement, or, if you will, a perversion of that primitive religion. I have floundered somewhat ineffectually through the slough of philology, but I look forward to the time when it will be possible for the lover of poetry to study poetry-even the poetry of recondite times and places -without burdening himself with the rags of morphology, epigraphy, frivatleben and the kindred delights of the archaslogical or
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