Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Romances and Ballads of Ireland
Tm: short space allowed for introductory matter in the twenty-third volume of this work, was devoted by me to an essay on the arrangement and nomenclature of minor poetry.
A farther consideration of this subject has induced me to make some alterations in that arrangement. In this volume I republish the essay, with those alterations which a closer examination and more exact analysis have convinced me' to be necessary.
The present volume contains Ballads and Romances poems of the fifth and sixth classes, according to the sub joined nomenclature.
Of all the classes of minor poetry, the most interesting and valuable, in a national point of view, is the Romance. The people, whose heroic deeds, and noble thoughts, and graceful legends, are preserved in narrative poetry, of a high order, can never pass away from the world of the mind.
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