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To some readers of these pages it may seem like profanation to pass over poets like Sill, George Woodberry, Edith Thomas, Richard Hovey, William Vaughn Moody, Madison Cawein to mention but half a dozen distinguished names out of a larger company and to suggest that James Whitcomb Riley, more completely than any American poet since Longfellow, succeeded in expressing the actual poetic feelings of the men and women who composed his immense audience.
The History of Modern Fiction. Professor BRANDER MATTHEWS. Two hours. The Theory, History, and Practice of Criticism, with special attention to Aristotle, Boileau, Lessing, and English and later French writers, and a study of the great works of imagination. Professor WOODBERRY. Three hours. Epochs of the Drama. Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century. Professor BRANDER MATTHEWS. Two hours.
Nightingales warble about it All night under blossom and star; The wild swan is dying without it, And the eagle crieth afar; The sun, he doth mount but to find it Searching the green earth o'er; But more doth a man's heart mind it O more, more, more! G.E. Woodberry.
George E. Woodberry is the very apotheosis of American brag, it has a redeeming technic. The music, for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra, reaches the very peaks of inspiration. I doubt if any living composer or many dead masters could grow so epic, as most of this. In a way it is academic. It shows a little of the influence of Wagner, as any decent music should nowadays.
He should also read A. C. Bradley's chapter on "Poetry for its Own Sake" in the Oxford Lectures on Poetry, Neilson's Essentials of Poetry, Stedman's Nature and Elements of Poetry, as well as the classic "Defences" of Poetry by Philip Sidney, Shelley, Leigh Hunt and George E. Woodberry.
History of English Literature from 1789 to the death of Tennyson: Lectures. Professor Woodberry. Three hours. History of English Literature from 1660 to 1789: Lectures. Mr. Kroeber. Three hours. History of English Literature from the birth of Shakespeare to 1660, with special attention to the origin of the drama in England and to the poems of Spenser and Milton. Professor Woodberry.
One wonders why the lovers of Poetry have been so much more solicitous for her cause than Poetry herself has appeared to be. Aristotle, and after him many others, in the field of English literature, Sidney, Shelley, and in our own day G. E. Woodberry, have made most eloquent defenses in prose, but thus far the supreme lyrical defense has not been forthcoming.
Studies in American Literature, Charles Noble. Introduction to American Literature, F.V.N. Painter. Life of Poe, Richard Henry Stoddard. Edgar Allan Poe, G.E. Woodberry. Makers of English Fiction, W.J. Dawson. "Art of Poe, Independent, 66: 157-8. January 21, 1909. "Dual Personality," Current Literature, 43: 287-8.
George Edward Woodberry, in his sonnet sequence, Ideal Passion, thus exalts his mistress, the abstract idea of beauty, above the loves of other poets: Dante and Petrarch all unenvied go From star to star, upward, all heavens above, The grave forgot, forgot the human woe. Though glorified, their love was human love, One unto one; a greater love I know.
At first Milton devotes himself to this vision exclusively, but, hearing the call of his country in distress, he abandons her, and their love is not suffered to culminate till after death. Bulwer Lytton cites the Phædrus of Plato as the basis of his allegory, reminding us, Greater importance attaches to a recent treatment of the theme by George Edward Woodberry.
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