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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important letter. (search)
e need only look over an edition of the English poets, and observe from what small beginnings it arose, and how laboriously it toiled on for ages, until it culminated in Spencer and Shakespeare, to be convinced of that fact. The same author to whom we have just alluded' tells us, in the same poem, that "brave men lived before Agamemnon." There is no doubt of that; nor is there any that they had bards to sing their exploits, too, as Agamemnon had. Tradition has preserved the names of Oleins, Linus, Orpheus, Musurus and others, who certainly were real men, although it is certain that the poems ascribed to them were forgeries of a much later age. Homer himself bears abundant testimony to the existence of a certain species of epic song, before his day, much resembling, we should suppose, the rhapsodies of the Welsh bards, or the songs which Ossian and others of his profession are supposed to have sung in the halls of chieftains. [Of course, we do not allude to the forgeries of Mcpherson