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The Beginnings of Poetry

Note 24 — Chapter I · PURPOSE AND METHOD

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Work quoted, p. 96. Even old Gottsched, Crit. Dichtkt., p. 68, called a child’s weeping “a song of lament,” and its laughter “a song of joy.” “Every passion,” he says, “has its own tone with which it makes itself manifest,” really a better hint of origins than this scientific masquerading of Jacobowski.

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