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And Alfred Douglas on his side was almost as powerfully attracted; he had inherited from his mother all her literary tastes and more: he was already a master-poet with a singing faculty worthy to be compared with the greatest.
Many of them were linked with old familiar sacred words; for others, some master-poet must be warmed to write their language in glowing verse. "The white-haired pauper," as Johanson was called throughout the whole country, had his satisfaction in his life-long incognito.
Is it not laughable that we should stand here at the last, two feet apart as things physical go, and be as profoundly severed as if an ocean tumbled between us?" He fell to walking to and fro, his hands behind his back. She waited, used as she was to his unstable temperament, a trifle puzzled. Presently he spoke: "There was a time when a master-poet was needed. He was found nay, rather made.
It is the most commonplace of tragedies, the heart of every man alive has been wounded in this identical fashion. A master-poet is only that wounded man among so many other bleeding folk who perversely augments his agony, and utilizes his wound as an inkwell. Presently time scars over the cut for him, as time does for all the others. He does not suffer any longer.
Hence, with the master-poet of Hellas, we must acknowledge those agrapta kasphalê theôn nomima ou gar ti nun ge kachthes, all aei pote zê tauta, koudeis oiden ex otou phanê the unwritten irresistible laws, ever-living, whose origin no one can tell.
The idealistic poet weans his eyes from their pragmatic character in varying degree. Browning notes his But the poet sometimes goes farther, making it his ideal to and may thus conceive of the master-poet as necessarily blind. Milton's noble lines on blindness in Samson Agonistes have had much to do, undoubtedly, with the conceptions of later poets.
Yet you have raised the ghost of an old madness to no purpose. You seek a master-poet? You will find none here. Perhaps I was one once. But most of us are poets of one sort or another when we love. Do you not understand? To-day I do not love you any more than I do Hecuba. Is it not strange that I should tell you this and not be moved at all?
And I submitted with clear eyes, because I could not help it. Yes, I who am by nature not disposed to underestimate my personal importance I submitted, because your mockery was more desirable than the adoration of any other woman. And all this helped to make a master-poet of me.
And Alfred Douglas on his side was almost as powerfully attracted; he had inherited from his mother all her literary tastes and more: he was already a master-poet with a singing faculty worthy to be compared with the greatest.
Those who insist that literary art, like all other art, should not concern itself positively with morality, must reflect that the heart of this age has been touched as truly by Longfellow, however differently, as that of any time by its master-poet. This, indeed, is his peculiar distinction.
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