The Sketch Book. No. XXXV. Merry England on May Morning
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature—Extract, Miscellaneous; Extract, Poetry |
Publications extracted: | Shafton 1827 |
Subjects: | Political Economy, Steam-power |
The writer revels in the thought of the traditional celebrations of May-day, but contrasts them with the present state of the nation, which has ceased to be 'poetical'. 'We are, in serious prose, a nation of stock-jobbers, political economists, and shopkeepers'. 'As we have become enlightened, we have ceased to be poetical; we have lost poetry, and we have gained steam-engines'. (289) | |
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