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The four months spent at Goslar, however, were the very bloom of Wordsworth's poetic career. Through none of his poems has the peculiar loveliness of English scenery and English girlhood shone more delicately than through those which came to him as he paced the frozen gardens of that desolate city.
At first, however, the case was in this respect alike in tragedies and epic poems." We may in the first place observe that Aristotle is not giving a precept here, but only making historical mention of a peculiarity which he observed in the Grecian examples before him.
Don't you think it was the greatest luck in the world for them that Keats, Shelley, Bonnington, and Byron died early? What a genius we should think Swinburne if he had perished on the day the first series of Poems and Ballads was published!" The suggestion pleased, for no one at the table was more than twenty-four, and they threw themselves upon it with gusto. They were unanimous for once.
What visions of beauty and sublimity passed before the inward and spiritual sight of blind Milton and Beethoven! I have an esteemed friend, Morrison Hendy, of Kentucky, who is deaf and blind; yet under these circumstances he has cultivated his mind to a high degree, and has written poems of great beauty, and vivid descriptions of scenes which have been witnessed only by the "light within."
"If you had said nothing you might have done what you liked." "I see. It's my saying it that makes the difference?" "That is not what I meant. I meant that you were free to publish what you have written. You are not free to say these things to me." "For the life of me I don't know why I said them. It means perdition for my poems and for me.
"So eager was his craving for reality and perfect sincerity, so morbid his dislike even for the unreal conventional forms of life, that a mind quite unique in simplicity and truthfulness represents itself in his poems as 'Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth. "Indeed, he wanted to reach some guaranty for simplicity deeper than simplicity itself.
The authors of these poems are all round us, men and women, and no one with a fair amount of human sympathy in his disposition would treat them otherwise than tenderly. Perhaps they do not need tender treatment. How do you know that posterity may not resuscitate these seemingly dead poems, and give their author the immortality for which he longed and labored?
Bad may be the best perhaps." One feels that the annotator might just as well have written, "How perfect was the happiness which this poem recalls!" for this is really all that Coleridge's eulogium, with its touching bias from the hand of memory, amounts to. It has become time, however, to speak more generally of Coleridge's early poems.
The Best Short Stories of 1916. Small, Maynard. OSBORN, E. B. Maid with Wings, The. Lane. PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW. Mr. Crow and the Whitewash. Harper. Mr. Rabbit's Wedding. Harper. Mr. Turtle's Flying Adventure. Harper. PAINE, RALPH D. Sons of Eli. Scribner. PERRY, MONTANYE. Where It Touches the Ground. Abingdon Press. Zerah. Abingdon Press. PIPER, EDWIN FORD. *Barbed Wire and Other Poems.
In one of Moore's juvenile poems he thus alludes to the same story, and to the practice of throwing garlands or other light objects on his stream to be carried downward by it, and afterwards reproduced at its emerging: "O my beloved, how divinely sweet Is the pure joy when kindred spirits meet!
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