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The Beginnings of Poetry

Note 242 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY (continued 2)

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A. W. Schlegel here and there hints at this origin of rhythm in labour; so does Sulzer. See note above, p. 101. See also the Abbé Batteux, “Sur les Nombres Poëtiques et Oratoires,” Mém. Acad. Inscript., XXXV. 415: “le marteau du forgeron tombe en cadence, la faulx du moissonneur va et revient avec nombre ... le rhythme soutient nos forces dans les travaux pénibles.”

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