P257.1 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, BY JOHN BISCO, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Evening: A Fragment,... Lines to a Sea-Shell: A Literary Thief, . EDITOR'S TABLE,. 73, 162, 262, 356, 455, 553 Moderation vs. Teetotalism,. Epigram: On a Pleasant but Ugly Woman, Erotic: Suggested by GOETHE, Every Body's Book: Or Something for All, Editor's Drawer,. Epitaph on a Barrel of Flour,.. Evening and Night: A Pair of Sonnets,. .... 148 My Mountain Home, 157 Mythology: the Mystic number Twelve,. 170, 358 Musings on Rivers. By FLACCUS,. 543 Memoir of Ludovico Ariosto,. 501 Μ. 117 28 111 268 367 384 408 503 523 The Earthquake in January. By FLACCUS, 27 CHARLTON,. 510 420, The Partisan Wars of Stokeville. From the Stokeville Papers,. 512 53 The Sun: a Sonnet, 522 The Voice of the Streamlet,. 529 69 74 78 U. 88 107, 242 Unwritten Happiness,... 317 112 531. The Battle of New Orleans,. The Bird of Araby. By WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK, The Late WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK,.. The Late Mrs. L. E. L. McLEAN,.. The Contrast,.. The Country Doctor, The Sentiment of Antiquity,.. The Unrequited,.. The Bachelour's Lament. By JOHN WA- TERS,. The Polygon Papers,. The Wahkula, The Little Kitten. Not by WORDSWORTH, The Royal Plagiarist,. Time's Changes. By FREDERICK COLTON, 149 WILSON'S American Ornithology,....... 355 LIKE all or nearly all the other nations of Europe, the Modern Greeks have two kinds, they might be called two grades, of poetry : one in all respects original and spontaneous, popular alike in substance and in form, traditional, and unwritten; the other written, and into which labor and art, imitation and learning, enter more or less largely and more or less happily, according to times, places, and individuals. The latter, springing up at about the same period with the modern literature of Europe, was at first, like that, the organ of the noblest thoughts and most refined feelings of the middle ages; and if it has not since exhibited as lofty a flight and as complete a development, the two have never at all events been totally separated from each other, nor has it failed to attain for itself a striking degree of beauty and maturity. This portion of the vulgar* Greek poetry is, if not the most interesting, at least the most extensive and varied, and comprehends the most curious and the oldest productions, as well as the most ingenious and finished compositions. But it is not of this portion that I propose to treat: such an under taking would carry me far beyond the limits within which I am circumscribed. My design is simply to communicate, with considerable minuteness of detail, some idea of the other branch of Modern Greek poetry; a poetry popular in every sense and in all the force of the term; a direct and faithful reflection of the national character and spirit, known and felt by every Greek from the fact that it is Greek; that it dwells on the soil and breathes the air of Greece; a poetry in short, which lives not a factitious and often but apparent life in books, but in the people themselves, and in all the life of the people. From the diversity of their subjects, the popular songs of the Greeks may all be arranged in three leading classes, domestic, historical, and romantic, or imaginative. Under the title of domestic I include such as have been composed *Vulgar is here used as synonymous with modern, in opposition to ancient or classic. |