This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...which poetry is capable is admirably shown in the first terzetto, and it is worth pages of tame prose disquisition. Almost every phrase is typical, comprising a picture of not merely some pecu-I liar trait of Keats's character and genius, but by its emphatic appropriateness bringing vividly to sight the whole ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...which poetry is capable is admirably shown in the first terzetto, and it is worth pages of tame prose disquisition. Almost every phrase is typical, comprising a picture of not merely some pecu-I liar trait of Keats's character and genius, but by its emphatic appropriateness bringing vividly to sight the whole man, as man and as artist. The prominent features of Lowell's sonnets may be briefly summed up, as extreme sensibility to moral and spiritual beauty; imagination, not so bright in its coloring, as clear, defined, harmonious in its outlines; insight, metaphysically acute; and, finally, in their mechanical construction, a degree of care and scholarly finish, which we often fail to perceive in his other and longer poems. Of the American writers of the illegitimate sonnet, in its countless multiplicity of forms, I do not think it necessary to speak at length. Their number, as intimated, is considerable; but their productions exhibit, on the whole, so little saliency, that I shrink from the task of individually criticising, or attempting to criticise them, that is to say elaborately. It is, however, essential to my plan that something should be said, in a cursory way, of the merits and demerits of these authors. Mr. George Hill--a native, Mr. Griswold tells me, of Guilford on Long Island Sound, and an eminent graduate of Yale College--is, I believe, the eldest of them. The style of his poetry, as exemplified in his dramatic piece, called " Titania," and in a poem on the " Ruins of Athens,"--in the Spenserean stanza, --justifies Griswold in terming it " severe "; but Mr. Hill's sonnets are somewhat loosely composed; and, moreover, they lack originality, both in the subjects selected and in the poet's mode of treating them. Our Female Sonneteers I...
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