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Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Flight of a Tartar Tribe, Biographical Sketches. Scott. Waverley, Heart of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Rob Roy, Antiquary, Marmion, Lady of the Lake. Keats. Hyperion, Eve of St. Agnes, Lyrical Pieces. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1871.
Some departments hardly appeared at all, others were strangely perverted, while yet others, like the drama, ballads, and lyrical verse, grew exuberant and lawless, from the very restraints imposed on the rest. But it would be an error to suppose that these peculiarities in Spanish literature were produced by the direct action either of the Inquisition or of the government.
These are the men who struck the loftiest notes of lyrical poetry, and who have attempted in their treatises and dialogues to give us an idealized image of the devouring passion 'l'amor divino. When they complain of the cruelty of the winged god, they are not only thinking of the coyness or hard-heartedness of the beloved one, but also of the unlawfulness of the passion itself.
It is perhaps just as well that the work remained unfinished. The best of his work appeared in the Lyrical Ballads and in the sonnets, odes, and lyrics of the next ten years; though "The Duddon Sonnets" , "To a Skylark" , and "Yarrow Revisited" show that he retained till past sixty much of his youthful enthusiasm.
It is closely imitated from the corresponding passage in Ovid, but the lyrical perfection and passionate crescendo of the stanzas are Poliziano's own. Addressing Pluto, Orfeo discovers the object of his quest: May not love penetrate even the forbidden bounds of hell? Why should death grudge the few years at most which complete the span of human life?
In this case, however, he unfortunately did not make his usual efforts to discover the authorship of a poem that pleased him; and a pity it is, for the poem is one of the loveliest lyrics that have been written in modern times. We hope it will find a place in the next anthology of lyrical poetry.
"You'd better be going," he said; and he gently jogged the recumbent boatman's elbow. "Leave me be! I want my tea," was the muttered and lyrical reply. "Hook it!" said Price. "Without my tea?" asked Blake, opening his eyes wide. "It was yesterday," explained Price, brusquely. "There isn't any free tea tonight." The effect was magical.
They at length decided to publish a book together to be called Lyrical Ballads. In this book there was published the poem which of all that Coleridge write is the best known, The Ancient Mariner. It tells how this old old sailor stops a guest who is going to a wedding, and bids him hear a tale. The wedding guest does not wish to stay, but the old man holds him with his skinny hand
The English with their lyrical genius have impressed the form, as they have impressed every other form, into lyrical service, and with some success, it must be admitted. But the Italian sonnet is not lyrical. It is conversational and intellectual, and many things which English instinct declares poetry ought not to be.
A friend of the poet's told me that Wordsworth had to him expressed his belief that he would be remembered longest, not by his sonnets, as his friend thought, but by his lyrical ballads, those for which he had been reviled and laughed at; the most by critics who could not understand him, and who were unworthy to read what he had written.
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