Excerpt from National Songs of Servia Word added to that which expresses the permanent and general quality of a thing can only relate to what is -partial and particular, and, therefore, less valuable. But so inherent to the thing spoken of fs the attribute first selected to qualify it, that by the process of universal usage the epithet is soon absorbed back into the noun. The words deep sea and black earth imperceptibly cease to ex pless any thing more than the sea' 'a11d the earth; and the modern poet, in O1de1 to 1ef1esh the sense of peiception, is constrained to designate these things anew by some epithet which, in pro portion as it is original, expresses only a limited and special experience. It is this primitive univer sality which gives to the poetry of the Serbs its freshness and its force. Adopting a word now gen erally admitted into our vocabulary from the Ger man, I would desciibe it as especially objective. The smallest Se1vian song is the1ef01e1athe1 d1a matic than lyrical. For the lyrical poet necessa1ily exp1esses a subjective state of mind, and the shallow critic who accuses him of egotism is simply accusing him of being a']y1'ic poet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.