Celtic Literature
září 2020 · Library of Alexandria
E‑kniha
154
Stránky
family_home
Vhodná
info
reportHodnocení a recenze nejsou ověřeny Další informace
Podrobnosti o e‑knize
The following remarks on the study of Celtic Literature formed the substance of four lectures given by me in the chair of poetry at Oxford.
They were first published in the Cornhill Magazine, and are now reprinted from thence.
Again and again, in the course of them, I have marked the very humble scope intended; which is, not to treat any special branch of scientific Celtic studies (a task for which I am quite incompetent), but to point out the many directions in which the results of those studies offer matter of general interest, and to insist on the benefit we may all derive from knowing the Celt and things Celtic more thoroughly.
It was impossible, however, to avoid touching on certain points of ethnology and philology, which can be securely handled only by those who have made these sciences the object of special study.
Here the mere literary critic must owe his whole safety to his tact in choosing authorities to follow, and whatever he advances must be understood as advanced with a sense of the insecurity which, after all, attaches to such a mode of proceeding, and as put forward provisionally, by way of hypothesis rather than of confident assertion.
To mark clearly to the reader both this provisional character of much which I advance, and my own sense of it, I have inserted, as a check upon some of the positions adopted in the text, notes and comments with which Lord Strangford has kindly furnished me.
They were first published in the Cornhill Magazine, and are now reprinted from thence.
Again and again, in the course of them, I have marked the very humble scope intended; which is, not to treat any special branch of scientific Celtic studies (a task for which I am quite incompetent), but to point out the many directions in which the results of those studies offer matter of general interest, and to insist on the benefit we may all derive from knowing the Celt and things Celtic more thoroughly.
It was impossible, however, to avoid touching on certain points of ethnology and philology, which can be securely handled only by those who have made these sciences the object of special study.
Here the mere literary critic must owe his whole safety to his tact in choosing authorities to follow, and whatever he advances must be understood as advanced with a sense of the insecurity which, after all, attaches to such a mode of proceeding, and as put forward provisionally, by way of hypothesis rather than of confident assertion.
To mark clearly to the reader both this provisional character of much which I advance, and my own sense of it, I have inserted, as a check upon some of the positions adopted in the text, notes and comments with which Lord Strangford has kindly furnished me.
Ohodnotit e‑knihu
Sdělte nám, co si myslíte.
Informace o čtení
Telefony a tablety
Nainstalujte si aplikaci Knihy Google Play pro Android a iPad/iPhone. Aplikace se automaticky synchronizuje s vaším účtem a umožní vám číst v režimu online nebo offline, ať jste kdekoliv.
Notebooky a počítače
Audioknihy zakoupené na Google Play můžete poslouchat pomocí webového prohlížeče v počítači.
Čtečky a další zařízení
Pokud chcete číst knihy ve čtečkách elektronických knih, jako např. Kobo, je třeba soubor stáhnout a přenést do zařízení. Při přenášení souborů do podporovaných čteček elektronických knih postupujte podle podrobných pokynů v centru nápovědy.
