[105]. The younger, of course.
[106]. Dichtung und Wahrheit, Book XI.; Hempel ed., III. 45.
[107]. “Wodurch Poesie erst zur Poesie wird,”—the erst will bear a stronger translation. Schiller, too, said that one must put into verse whatever rises above the commonplace; and Goethe agreed with him: all poetry “should be treated rhythmically.” Victor Hugo, in his Preface to Cromwell, pp. 33 f., defends verse for the drama; prose has not adequate resources.
[108]. Milton is thinking, too, of this in his well-known passage in the treatise on Education. “I mean not here the prosody of a verse ...” boys learn that in their grammars; but in time they must be taught the great things,—“that sublime Art which in Aristotle’s Poetics ... teaches what the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what Decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.”
[109]. Essay on the Imitative Arts.
[110]. No. XXXV. of the Lectures.
[111]. Of the Origin and Progress of Language, II. 50; IV. 41.
[112]. See the Transactions of the Society, Vol. I. Warrington, 1785, pp. 54 ff.
[113]. Biographia Literaria, Chap. XIV.—“Poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre, and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem.”
[114]. The Poetic Principle.