Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-06-19


Look in this place Cassius Digger tllroughp
IL the poet had said that Cassus had run his 6s,
through the rent OF the mantle, it would have had
more of MIR. BowlcS's . nature 10 helD il but the
artificial dagger is poctical than any natural
hand without 1t. In the sublime of sacred poetry,
" Who is this that comcth from Edom with duel
garments from Bozrah 2" Would the ,.on,crm 'I,o
poctical without his g died garments 90 which strike
and startlc the spectator, and identify the approach
ing object
The mother of Sisera is represented listening for
the " oheeks ofhis chariot" Solomon. in his Sonu.
compares the nose of his beloved To 20 a tower"
winch TO us appears an eastern exaggeration Irhe
had sad that her stature like that OF Il tow
ers, 1t would have been poctical as if he had
compared her 10 n tree.
:" The virtuo,n Marcia tosrers above her sep
is IN instance of an artificial image to exprsss =
moral superiority. But Solomon il is probable. did
not compare his beloved'S to tower on ac-
count OF LENGTH but OF its symmetry and making
allowance for eastern hypcrboe, and the difficulty
oil hnding discreet IMAGE for female nose i'm ma
iurc, IL is perhaps good figure as any other.
Art rs not inferior TO nature for poetica purposes
what makes regiment of soldiers more noble
OBJECT oil view than the same mass of mob Their
arms, their dresses, their banners and the art and
artificial symmetry OF their position and movements
a iiighlander's plaid, Mussulman's turban, and a
Roman toga are more poetical than the tattooed or
uniattooed buitocks OF New Sandwich savage,
although they were described by William Words
worth himself like the g idiot in his glory''
have seen as many mountains most men, and
more fleets than the generality OF landsmen; and TO
my mind, large convoy with few sail of the line
To conduct them, is noble x poeiica n prospect
as all that inaniniatc nature produce. / prefer
the mast OF some great ammiral, with all its tackle
To the Scotch hr or the Alpine tanncn and think
that more poetry has been made out of it. In what
does the infinite superiority of @ Falconers Shin
wreck over all other shipwrecks consist In his
admirable application of the terms of his art in
Poet-saiiors description Of the sailors fate. These
ner terms, by his application, make the strength and
reality OF his poem. Why because he was a poet
and IN the hands of poet art will not be found
less oil namcntal than nature. IL is precisely in gen
eral nature, and in stepping of his clement that
ralconer iaIls where he dgresses to speak of an
cient Greece, and " such branches of learning
In Dyer's Gronsar Hill, upon which his fame
rests the very appearance of nature herself is NOR
aired into an artificial image
"Thus is natures pssture wrought
To instruct wandering thought;
Thus she dresses green aud gay,
10 disPersc our cares away"
And here also we have the telescope the misuse
OF which, from Milton, has rendered Mr. Bowles so
triumphant over Mr. Campbell
So mistake the futures face
Eyed through Hopes deludng giass.
And here word en- PEASANT to Mr.. Campbell
As yon submits, soft and fair,
Clad in colours OF the sir,
Which TO those who journey near
Barren brown, and rough appear,
Sill we tread the same coarse way
The presents still a cloudy day"
Is not this the original of the far-fanicd
ATS distance lends enchantment to The view,
And robes the mountain in its hue ?"
To return once more TO the sea- Let any one
look on the long wall of Malamocco, which curbs
the Adriatic, and pronounce between the 60, and
its master. Surely that Roman work, q mean Ro-
man IN conception and pcrormance), which saws to
The ocean, % thus far shalt thou come, and no fur
Their, aud is obeyed, is not less sublime and poetica
than the angry waves which vainIy break beneath il
NAL fitac chi of x.C -
poesy depend upon the " l1ind :" then why
- ship under sail more poetical than hog in n
high wind The hog is all nature, the ship is all
art, " coarse canvass" " blue bunting" and tall
poles;' both are violently acted upon by the
wind, tossed here and there to and fro, and set no
thing but excess of hunger could make me look
upon the pig as the more poetical Of the two, and
then only in the shape Of giskin.
Will Mr.. Bowes tell that the poetry OF an
aqueduct consists in the Irdter which il CONVEYS
Let him look on that Of Justinian, on those of
Rome, COnstantinoplc, Lisbon, and Elyas or even
at the remains that in Attica
we are asked, " what makes tie venerable
towers of Westminster Abbey more pociical "a
objects, than the tower for the manuactorv of pa
tent shot, surrounded by the same scenery ?" will
architecture. Turn Westminster Alb
hey or Saint Pauls into powder magazine, their
poetry, objects remains the same the Pantheon
WIS actually converted into one by the Turks dur
ING Morosim's Venetian siege, and part Of il des-
royed in consequence. Cromwell dragons stall |
ed their steods in Worcester cathedral was less
loctieal as object than before Ask Il coreipner
Dn his approach to London what strikes him as the
post poeticai Of the towers before him nc will |
point out Saint Paul's and Westminster Abbey, |
without, perhaps, knowing the names or associations
1f either, and pass over the towcr for patent shot"
rot that for any thing he knows to the Contrary il
night not be the mausolcum of n monarch, or a |
Waterloo column, or u Trafalgar monument, but |
BECAUSE Us architecture is obviously inferior
To the question, " whether the description Of |
of hf a..
ion 0f the artists equal as a description Of "a walk |
n forest 2" il may be answered, that the ma
grigls are certainly not equal but that tie ar
ist" who has rendered the game Of cards poet-
al Is by (otr The greater Of tho two. But ali this
ordering Of poets is purely arbitrary OF she part
! Mr.. Bowies. There may or may not be, IL fact
iferent orders Of poetry, but The poet is always
anSed according TO his execution, and moi occor-
Ing 10 lis branch of the art