Statement (lines1-2)
The English language is the richest for poetry

Qualification of statement (lines 3-10)
This doesen't mean that England has produced the greatest poets or amount of poetry

Clarification (lines 11-14)
English is the richest language for poetry because it has the largest vocabulry

Supporting statement + exemples (lines 14-29)
This richness is due to the variety of elements of which English is made of:
a) German element
b) Scandinavian element
b) French element
c) Latin element
d) Celtic element

Further clarification + examples (lines 29-40)
The English language is also rich in its rhythmic variety. The elements are:
a) Saxon verse
b) Norman French verse
c) Latin ang Grece verses
d) versers taken from english poems written in different places

First restatement (lines 41-44)
English is a good language for poetry because it is derived from so many linguistic sources

Second restatement ( lines 44-48)
England has not necessarily produced the greatest poets

Statement + examples (lines 49-51)
It is generally thought that the greatest peoples exel in one art. Exemples:
a)Italy and Frence in painting
b)Germany in music
c)England in poetry

Refutation + example (lines 52-68)
This is not correct because:
a)an art isn't an exclusive possess of a country
b)other countries have taken the lead of poetry
Example: in the second half of the nineteenth century France surpassed and influeced England in poetry

Further refutation + example (lines 68-76)
A nation which leads in a particular art form in a particular period does not necessarily produce the greatest artists. Exemple:
Goethe is greater than Wordsworth even if the second is an esponent of the Romanticism

Statement (lines 77-86)
No European nation would have accomplished what it has, as far as culture is concerned, if other countries had not developed the same art forms

Statement (lines 86-99)
The ability of European literature to renew itself depends on thwo factors:
a)the ability to receive and assimilate influences from abroad
b) the ability to go back and learn from its own sources

III
The personal pronoun "I" refers only to the author; the personal pronoun "you" refers to in line18 to German people, in the line 41, instead, it refers to no-english people

IV
the verbs which express opinion are: to think, to mean, to assume, to venture

V
A) the essayist is addressing to the listeners of a German broadcast.
B)the opinions proposed in the essay are drawn from common thoughts and also from the essayist's point of view
C)the writer's main intenction is to demonstrate that English is the best language for poetry

D) the essayist proves his statements with qualifications , clarifications, examples and discarding possible oppositions.