Note 1061 — Chapter VII · THE EARLIEST DIFFERENTIATIONS OF POETRY

As Matthew Arnold reminds us:—

Sophocles, long ago,

Heard it on the Ægean.

For the prevailing tone of lyric is sad, and Euterpe treats her poet as Genevieve treated Coleridge:—

She loves me best whene’er I sing

The songs that make her grieve.