and until a whole region is that was gifted with depth of spiritual insight and power to describe the most profound emotions of the soul and the links binding it to the material universe beyond all other english poets we had almost said beyond himself we cannot doubt his and line sound those awful depths of consciousness the secret places where joy and terror and love are bom which to some men are unknown but alas he did not live to give complete utterance his was by the woes of humanity his short life bv a persecution of which we have no parallel in the history of modem literature yet what might not that genius in the maturity of its power have accomplished that amid the chaos of a life like his could shape such forms of awful grandeur as rise before us in that could sway the passions as in the that could glide into the realm of the spiritual world as in and or in the pure sunshine of beauty as in � the sensitive plant and the it has been said of he was a broken mirror whose fragments reflected the forms of all things he was a poet for poets his writings are to the bard what the s feast of is to the artist � more precious that their creator left them all their to work their way into ae souls of men the genius of was oriental he was a man out of his by half the of the globe his and curse of are as truly wonderful and excellent in their way as his and are the reverse he reasoned upon politics and religion he looked upon society like a he did all manner of things and wrote poems that should be hung up as � yet twice he found his element and left specimens of and poetry in our language each of these great writers no less than and scott has been more or less successfully the peculiarities of master and have thus divided the poetic band into groups among these tiie latest is that composed of and his followers so early taken from the earth he the poetry of lived l enough to express his thought in a few inferior to no others of the age in originality of design and execution we say was an poet of course we do not employ the term in the usual foolish mode as indicating an entire from all others men g true genius are not monsters though possessing a temperament and a position which makes it impossible that they should ever than themselves influences from lofty minds steal in to direct them and underneath all their peculiarities flows the tide of a common humanity as the same ocean around the flower islands of the and lashes the icy banks that frown over the seas of course there are men whose productions are widely separated who stand back to back yet the majority of writers are distinguished by characteristics not easily described a slight peculiarity of temperament or the of a single � a uttle difference of mental culture a year s additional spiritual experience � either of these things colors the medium which that strange assemblage of and we call nature and life are viewed and the an author these peculiarities are probably his own temperament depth of being and capacity of on and moral experience � these came from i� m who willed that each of his creatures shall from every other but the same materials surround all and and suggestions must come from others in only by contact on every side with minds can one acquire its proper development by the attraction and of every individual in the great mass of humanity is each driven to its own place we must then look for much that is common to us all in the most original mind and not deny its claim to even if we can discover all the sources of its and all the of communication between itself and other spirits therefore we shall not hesitate to bestow upon the title of a great al poet his as we have before observed is the love of the beautiful he is the of beauty the of modem poets heaven and earth air and sea and the forms of human and beings are constantly filling his soul with the materials of his poetic creation he he he is oppressed and amid the around him he cannot drive away the poetry as the of images that his and he is with ihe and of beauty is all sufficient for him the reader who looks for any purpose beyond this in his works will be pointed he has no power in the of character life and he never attempts it hie beautiful of him a field for the exercise of his power and through it he with ever new delight the intelligible of poets the of old the power the beau and the that had her in or or forest by slow stream or spring or and depths � an these live in his pictured es he is from common life in the high re of romance love and beauty the da of tiie gods ar with a new lustre in the inspiration of this modem by modem life and oppressed by tiie neglect and of an age that knew not his rare powers he never e makes his verse the medium of his opinions or personal he seeks not to the hell of modem but to escape from it beauty to him is sufficient consolation for all woes � it is religion and power a thing of is a joy � t the eternal law that first in beauty shall be first in might the loves of and the sorrows of old dreams of the of and the ma of � these were to him more than all things else he walked among 