Bliss Carman sends out his book as a palpable revelation of himself and his experiences, knowing it will be received only by those in whom it touches a responsive chord. He says: "A book may be a cry in the night, like Carlyle's; or a message from the god of the woods, like Emerson's; or the utterance of a scholar like Newman from the schools of ancient learning; or it may be no more than the smiling salutation of a child on the street. Let him receive it who understands its appeal." Nothing that Carman writes, whether ...
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Bliss Carman sends out his book as a palpable revelation of himself and his experiences, knowing it will be received only by those in whom it touches a responsive chord. He says: "A book may be a cry in the night, like Carlyle's; or a message from the god of the woods, like Emerson's; or the utterance of a scholar like Newman from the schools of ancient learning; or it may be no more than the smiling salutation of a child on the street. Let him receive it who understands its appeal." Nothing that Carman writes, whether prose or verse, is destitute of delicate grace and exquisite charm, but this volume of Nature essays persuades us that poetry is his native realm in which he is most at home. The essays regard not Nature alone but Life; the first is on "The Art of Life," the second on "Being Strenuous," while others are on "Haste and Waste," "The Luxury of Being Poor," "The Wandering Word," "The Seed of Success," "Concerning Pride," "Play," "The Debauchery of Mood," "Moderation," and "Serenity." Whether the author is pagan or Christian is as difficult to tell from his prose as from his poetry. Perhaps the poet is a bee that sips the sweetness of all sorts of flowers whether of low land or high land, from the slopes of Hymettus or the AEgean plain. When he says, "To keep the Ten Commandments is not the whole business of man, not his whole duty; It is only a beginning, a crude makeshift of conduct; and the law of love by which they were superseded brings us nearer to perfection," he is the pupil of Jesus Christ, though some other word would be better than "superseded." He quotes, with sympathetic approval Lanier's words: "One has appeared who continually cried love, love, love -love God, love neighbors; and these 'neighbors' have come to be not only men-neighbors, but tree-neighbors, river-neighbors, star-neighbors." Writing of "The Crime of Ugliness," he says: "I conclude that joy in one's work, pleasure In one's emotions, and satisfaction in one's thoughts, go to make up the sum of happiness. And I am skeptical of the validity of any theory of conduct which can countenance the cultivation of any one of these forms of happiness at the expense of the others. We can only reach happiness by a degree of cultivation of all our faculties. We perceive that even piety is by no means a sure bringer of happiness. The blameless life is sometimes hidden under a mass of woebegone unloveliness. Our good friends fail of happiness because they have made the mistake of thinking goodness the only aspect of the universe, whereas it is only one of three. -- The Methodist Review , Volume 86
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