Excerpt from Longer Narrative Poems
This volume is designed to continue the study of narrative poetry begun in the volume, in this series, on Ballads. As in that book, the effort is to bring out, by a comparison of different examples, the generic or typical quality, while not losing sight of the other element of importance, the characteristic or particular quality of each. The most noteworthy narrative poems of the nineteenth century chance to be sufficiently various in spirit and workmanship to illustrate many different forms of epic quality. One omission might be noted, that of the humorous tale. Without aspersion of "The Ingoldsby Legends," for instance, it seems as if such verse is so different in spirit from our selections, that little good would come from a juxtaposition which could hardly help giving a certain jar.
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