Note 362 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
Reading edition
When folk read and write, they cease to improvise poetry, and the folksong really ceases; that the æsthetic impulse, however, abides with them, even in low levels, but has other results, is shown by Gustav Meyer in an interesting passage of his “Neugriechische Volkslieder,” Essays, p. 309.