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The verse of our period is filled with names from the past that offer our poets a noble precedent for their destitution, Homer, Cervantes, Camöens, Spenser, Dryden, Butler, Johnson, Otway, Collins, Chatterton, Burns, all these have their want exposed in nineteeth and twentieth century verse.
It was a father who had this effect upon his children; and the torturing and ruining of these young child-lives was being effected in the civilized England of our nineteeth century. Granger represented a not too uncommon type of man, and Nat and Thady did not suffer more than hundreds of other boys when exposed to his influence.
To absorb and express in poetry, anything of it of its world America cities and States the years, the events of our Nineteeth century the rapidity of movement the violent contrasts, fluctuations of light and shade, of hope and fear the entire revolution made by science in the poetic method these great new underlying facts and new ideas rushing and spreading everywhere; truly a mighty age!
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