| Show ENGLISH POETS ten tennyson anyson his human buman sympathy and his power for folex expressing tender passion is chiefly the poet of abstract qualities says a writer in the new england magazine the struggle between conscience and passion and doubt is a real enough one but the poet who devotes devotee himself to its illustration is not and cannot be the champion or divine right of derpo personality i he is rather the defender of the a law of righteousness we may go a stop step further and cite george eliot as an illustration of another modern tendency though she ahe wrote so little in verse her lyric oh may I 1 join the choir intini ble is isa a most characteristic expression of her deepest thought it precisely and determinedly ignores the inexorable demand of the spirit for a personal hearing and bids it find repose in the hope of an immortality of absorption into the eternal love now robert browning Browni is removed browning from tennyson and nj george eorge eliot and the F schools of thought they represent by a wide chasn chasm he may write chiefly of a remote time and place and he may speak with numberless dramatic intonations but this great modern fact he never for one heartbeat heart beat forgets the true force which the ages have spent themselves in conserving and which is to be the su blimes sublime st product of the universe is found in the spirit of this man and that man and the other man it is the word which emerson spoke but it is emphasized by the poetic voice and developed by the thought of another gentile genius |
