| Show I I s ov UN O IO n It few tew day daya since Professor Protessor Triggs of ot the University of at Chicago at attacked attacked tacked tho the hymnal saying the hymns were ivere doggerel and the Sunday school schoolbooks books were not as good as ns the dime as literature Ut The Tho press pt the country generally paid Uj if ct to him bins and did for tor him what requested r be done for tor him wrote him dOin d wn an aes na Now ho he Is at nt It again This time lie Ito has hns been attacking the poetry of ot Long Longfellow follow fellow toll ow lie He characterizes It as a trivial anti unworthy of or consideration It If this thisbe thisbe thisbe be so then why hy does doe tho the Chicago pro professor fessor spend his hll hi time or o any portion of ot It upon a n thing unworthy of ot consid consideration Ho lie must do It for tor the taint saint reason that t those who lint find HO much that thatIs U Is I and unworthy In many titan man books which they the declare are aro unfit to 10 place In inthe the tho hands s of ot decent people peole rend read tho those thOlo c same books b ok that they the may nitty warn oth others othera cr ers era off art and still have had tho the pleasure from thorn they would deny deity others poetry Is l not great poetry poet anti no one has Ims ever evor claimed It was vas It Is good poetry anti and at nl atthe atthe the time he wrote It and Ind for tur long Ion at It satisfied a n longing of the tho American people Surely to 10 do that was much Can Cam any nn poetry do more Bal nal Ballad lad had Is not nol of order yet et love loe ot of It has llis always olas been bion a very er good sign ot of n a sound l and ami healthy health taste It Is true trul that tom some good poets have despised It while others equally good or better bettor have loved It Longfellow belongs to the class cias ot Qt gentle poets and not to those tho so whose hoRt groat t organ tones tents echo Cho through the corridors ot or time tini This latter class sit t by themselves like the gods gots on Ott Olympus They The are or standards for tor nit alt ages ORe and their music mude Is like that of ot ottI tile the tI r all nil time all alt cl linos OS OSto to bb be echoed In III the great g nt universal heart of mankind They are few tt in number and they the appear but once or twice In many centuries I I l Inot b not of the nor not did ho lie claim to be Hut Jul he hi Is g a tL sweet singer and his hi poetry satisfies many of ot the tho commoner every day longings of ot the soul wul and this thin Is to much Poetry that does doe that Is II not altogether alto trivial or unworthy of ot con eon It may InAY be bt said of or Long Longfellow Longfellow fellow tetlow that his hI poetry moves mos the tho feel teel feelIngs I lag Ings t Utah stirs the thought HU Ills most ardent admirers hue have never claimed could not claim that he Iv ever ver verone once one stirs those 01 thoughts that thai lie He too leu te deep 11 for far utterance u list Hut t If It he does dOH net Det It lit hi I no disparagement ot of him bun to say so iIO titers there are or few lw Hili 5 who do Whether Professor Trig has ts ovet Oel attempted to te write Mile poetry Oril We P do not nO know ino we e he Is I to on n to put iw forth n a 1 U k but hb ha cue case c r Ua i t remark by I Ii a n in one os Oil af L Dis ms rull novell Who are ore the critics h lii The Tile sliest men who have ha failed la in literature was YM wa the th reply |
