The Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Misfortunes of Elphin and Rhododaphne The Misfortunes of Elphin occupies a curious position among Peacock's books. I myself prefer it to almost all of them, and I know some others who think with me, but it has been by no means a general favourite, though every one, I think, has acknowledged the merit of the 'War Song of Dinas Vawr.' It is not difficult to account for this comparative want of popularity. The scenery and subject are remote, and the shortness of the book does not give the author time to make them familiar. The poetry is of a stamp at least as unfamiliar, and still more difficult to bring home to English readers, for high as Welsh poetry stands by consent even of those who do not invariably admire Celtic things, its whole scheme, imagery, language and prosody appear to be even more difficult to transplant into English than the vague and doubtful fragments of Gaelic, and the abundant and genuine stores of Irish. But I should imagine that the chief stumbling-blocks have been, first, the pervading irony of the thing, and, secondly, the additional offence of ironic treatment of a romantic subject. 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.