The Beginnings of Poetry

by Francis Barton Gummere

[35]. In 1805.

[36]. See below, on the Darwinian theory of lyric.

[37]. Polynesian Researches, American ed., III., Chap. XII.

[38]. Waitz-Gerland, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, VI. 85.

[39]. Ibid., VI. 606 ff.

[40]. See R. M. Meyer, Altgermanische Poesie, p. 434.

[41]. Studies in Ancient History, First Series, new ed., 1886; see pp. 2, 35.

[42]. Anfänge der Kunst, pp. 21 ff., 32 ff.

[43]. London, 1795, pp. xlii ff.

[44]. Nearer to the present subject are Smith’s excellent essay “Of the Imitative Arts” and the fragment “Of the Affinity between Music, Dancing, and Poetry.”