Show future are there to be no more great poets in england or america notwithstanding 0 that the opinion or of the literary world seems to discourage hopes for the future conditions editions s themselves are arc not so unfavorable true no do writer now DOW living has enrolled his name among the really great poets of the english blanpa language 0 0 c but may it not be that from among the many man now producing respectable verse a star may rise whose light will shine quite as brilliantly as any now sunk beneath the horizon never before was there so great grea an amount ui c 0 ua pietr poetry I 1 written rit en so far as the artistic and imitable part of the art is concerned indeed it is not improbable that the demand for immaculate form has had so something in c to do with absence of original 0 vial anil and independent poetic effort alone can give a writer lot long 0 life again every great poet in the in english 0 a ish language 0 lias has had the field to hias df to a great extent the tendency seems to be that so long on as his writings satisfy the public all other productions are meas measured urcil by his hia standard a fact which could not re result alt other oilier than in furnishing whatever genius might exist Is i it t not true that in ili memoriam or the idylls idyles is the literary half bushel in which any aspirant in the field of poetry must be measured not only do the literary censors thus encourage the di divine vitle art but the alie very air seems im impregnated with the influence of the favorite author and so long 0 as his star is in the aseen ascendant dant less favored writers are dazzled by its lir light allt therefore we need not bo be discouraged cou raged b if the muse finds no representative in ill the en engliski Engli t lish sli langu language ap g to succeed tennyson the field is now clear and it need not surprise us if but a few moro more years should bring forth ono one to take up the torch and bear it manfully on through the remainder of liis his generation |