Note 183 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY

In a review of Bücher’s Arbeit und Rhythmus; see Zeitschr. f. vergl. Litteraturgesch., N. F. II. (1897) 369 ff. This is another darling heresy,—to break up the old tradition of evolution, and to deny that dance, song, poetry, began as a single art. Yet ethnology, as it will be seen, supports this tradition; so does a study of popular poetry. Compare, too, Iliad, XVIII. 569 ff., and other commonplaces, for the classic traditions, and Aristotle’s famous passage on Origins, for older science in the case.