Coalville Times | 1903-06-19 | Page 7 | Vitality of Burns' Fame

VITALITY OF UUHN9' FAME. II la On of the Great Facts of Our Literature, "Tho Inquest" on Hubert llurn wa concluded kills! ami. but from tlms to tlmo the flndlnna are reviewed by critical crit-ical writers, as In a recent symposium, says Collier's. A curious result thus rhnnees. From overy such Inquisition the poet emeii-es thn more rnd.ant aud triumphal Ihn critics are lost In tho splendor they hnve evoked, it Is on thing lo ninkn lllmntitre; It Is another and quite different Iblne. to write about llteraturo and tho makers (hereof. Tals la a truism, and yet (he dlslln. ll. n It often confused, especially by the writers writ-ers of I'lllbisin. Unlet hss survived several jrei.erstinna -of srefMes,- mtsy of whom ntndo a vnln bid for remum-brance remum-brance by their praise or dltprnlse of him. Th vitality of his fsine la one of the jrent fa, is of our literature.