Présentation de l'éditeur
This collection differs in one particular from the usual ;-, anthologies. It strives to show that heroic verse is the verse dealing with heroes, heroic characters, heroic acts, quite irre- spective of the nationa Uty or century of the actors themselves. A patriotic hymn is a patriotic hymn, an heroic action is an heroic action, whether the hymn celebrate Thermopylae ;or Mukden and whether the action takes place outside li Bethulia or Ladysmith. I ndeed, until a short time ago, Leonidas was more real to British youth than either Wolfe 0. or Clive, and this catholicity is an element in the mutual cadmiration which makes for world-peace, even though the songs be of war. It follows too, though this has, I think, been little appreciated in books on history or sociology, that :it is impossible in such a collection to hide the transcendent cmerit of man as an individual. I do not say that collective J,heroism is unknown (for many of the pieces included in this book seem to show its possibility); but it appears to be clear that nowhere does the importance of the single personality show itself so brilliantly as in the individual act, word, thought. Even when, as in a stubborn defence of a town, or as in a sortie, or as in the unnamed, unknown heroism of families under agonising stress, or as in the prolongation of a righteous strike even when collective heroism seems demonstrated, it will surely be fovmd that the dynamic thrust comes from a character, an attitude, a sacrifice.
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