| Show LITERARY NOTES it would wool ha be interesting to t know h how ow these little be OIL of now new poetry would affect atteck tin an in ingenuous tenuous and in tolli golit youth bitt att probably he could not lot tell lell if b he read thein what whal une one feels feela more and mure more as he stows grows older Is 1 that the new poetry does not seem to be made for him had and he suspects it charm and virtue in it that hut do 10 not reach his hh soul thir HiU pugh uli hla his toughened sensibilities very likely they bra are not tit id it but he finds 11 mis it to the advantage a of his spiritual health to imagine them thein there and lie he hopes to acquire merit by one else may reel feel thein li it Is ii certain certainly ly not alway 9 easy to read this now new but honestly between ono one find and onos ones aalf wim wild poetry ever very ewy eggy reading it la Is doubtless easiest when read aloud to 4 it a person of tho other ws ex then it li Is charming it if the pernon n of athe the other sex is churm ck arming los and it I 1 lina ailts I 1 ltd is attractions even when read alou dlo a group of attractive p peranna e arso n 8 of lite other sex bex or two young men iven may luay read it together tog when lion they are both in love arid and in ili like awu young girls but finones in enyd closet ua as ones room la is called in poetry not ant the real closet where ones clothes hang in the solitude of ones chamber would not one far rather have a good novel if he wished to be either pleased or odi edified edif ted fled chii Is a very bold q question and it requires till all out our hrdi hard a hood hood to put it but sooner or II 11 later ter oice one JOB must ask aak it for poetry poet r y h gradually ChRO chroming ging its whole rala lion to tire life which it no longer depicts or expresses in the old way it no longer even represents literature th it ft once hie did in 11 the beginnings of modern literature the were mere poetic form was enough Ino moire arid and rhyme masat scholarship gud and men were airm amazed zed us as children now are at poo ply who could make them alter after ward thought and ciul tooling lu alini were dy do ra ita ded as well as ag moire metre and rhyme then elegance then beauty and beau beauty y more and more there thera was a time when history was told in verse arid and in the epics there wua was a good deal of fact as aa well as fiction in our day aurora leigh and lucille to give the poetic form to novels arid and the he epic may be said ditled to have expired in thom them their success ended the tha long wg tradition the pos pastoral was dead long loner ago dead the satire dead the metrical drama graitia drai tia the tale la ili verse versa ceased with Tenny sons idyle idyl and hla his own and other peoples peo imitations of them what we have left ii the essay descriptive or L the sonnet uttering in elau orata form a single thought or emotion the ayr I 1 cat cal anecdote the lyrical conundrum the lyrical picture nud the iha lyrical lyrical ery cry or outburst to 0 this last the metrical shape still seems essential it bines and it please plea hf but that it t Is really essential we do not khinki thin kany I 1 say reader of poems in profile will maintain nevertheless it t has yet an undeniable lahla value though it can no lunger longer import this thin to thoughts in themselves pour bour find and slight alight and it is proof of the intellectual and c motional emotional merit of much in itil group of books thattie that the churin chorla peals inherent la in the thought rather than the form lard tennyson might be lia icily su supposed liposek suppo aed to be trying to make us think it had been or to have beon very little in ills his echo of aoi L casley hull hall sixty years arter after 11 but it deerns to us that his attitude inice in ahe poem has been ind and ho he has been thought b t x press pl sa 1 u I persona personal I 1 when iha boeru was wai largely dramatic As a poem it Is very good god in patti that ter than its young bave not t lived long enough to regret adir no lono and prejudices can caa know it breathes bre albes the HIB and abe hi humility p us as well iiii ns ila ing and despair ir if it the be world burld harshly soft anil fesse sand forgives with ith touching meekness the error und and the loid lobit of first love for these virtu ea the agines ag ined may be allowed to flinga flint abuit bont him blat somewhat crazily io 10 flod find ail HI baing KIV wrong us its old me med do and to rail tit nt the age as it if god had mado a mitake in letting it loina to page ye ve have heard a young philosopher philoa opher ofte of the news new school abhorred by sueh such old men for their desira 10 look facia tit in the he face and iri to see what hey wean mean declare that years need not always bring this is the day may come collie when men instead of setting up some little ideal of wit ici helles or buor iu orli or society which ekmat inevitably topple ovi ovet in time will ro re gard each new development of ing good or nr ill af us pirt part nf 91 a design not conceived and ahil inevitably working from over emer lasting tu everlasting and that they will then not be shocked nhoi kod but inter osted cited and eager ager for the visit turn of si lairs if the hero of locksley Lov kaley hall were living in tho the possible futures of this hop hopeful fit evolutionist he e would pro pru bibly bAbly riot dot at author u thor atheist essayist nov Alst realist real borbein for beina bein true to their of cf human natorp and wo would uld regard the ithe naarden wallowing ju the I 1 fa f boughs quatis of ala bacialli fa lam cialli us uj berha perhaps ps no noi more oura dangerous y employed than lu in conjecturing the ahe precise character find expert P c Ps 0 or r such as vivian and M un overe and W fl in editors Harper 11 for A march tarch |
