Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-24 | Page 4 | Local News

In summoning up the last of ot the lectures of Prof Prot William Knight of fit St Andrews Andrew University en un TIle Tho Philosophic tibia Undertones of Modern poetry tv a 1 writer In III tho the Boston Transcript gives the tho following as the professors opinion of Matt Matthew how Arnold Arnold with for tor clu do ture turu that come colon to few lind possessed of at atthe the greatest delicacy and refinement was a 1 brilliant prose critic but as a aI poet I lacked tho the Intensity and the wel wol welling wolling ling hag up of poetic thought In the soul Boul which marks a n poet loet born That Is a just estimate Arnold is a t correct but uninspired poet In Jn one ono ol ot his letters ho says that the poet has hoa to tear himself to pieces ees to get out o t the lest beat cst that is in him Anti And thus the tune asre crl mma may be IJ J d to poetry by b his hili readers He lie lacks and that of ot the soul that gives rise to thoughts that lie too deep for tor utterance He lie was wall first of all nil a 11 critic and a n critic of at the tho first order ills His Ivan ivas clearly a Q case ot of a 11 poet made and not born orn