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Drawing On Horace-- and Shakespeare, The Ancients and modern Ancients like |
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Feb 5 05, 19:43
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PERHAPS
As forests change their leaves with the declining years....so the old generation of words perishes, and those newly born blossom and flourish like young men. -Horace in Enemies of Poetry, W.B. Stanford, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980, p.113.
Shakespeare has more meaning and value now than he had in his own day. -A contemporary critic of English Literature in ibid., p.114.
So may my words perish after this spiritual springtime, after the leaves of men’s lives have been arrayed with fresh blossoms and fruits of a consecrated joy; but it may be, just maybe, that they come to have more meaning in a future age when the deluge has gone, the frenetic busyness has abated, the mental tests have swept past: purging, purifying and preparing us for the noble mission which is our future as a race. Then, perhaps then, there will be people who can submit themselves to time’s process, to this dance of words and ideas that I have drunk with my mind in these darkest hours before the dawn of peace.
Ron Price 3 December 1995
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