Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-04-06
JOB PRINTING.
FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN.
Poets and Poetry.

| This is certainly progressive age. The height
Of perfection to which the fine arts are being car
ried at the present day, is alone sufficient to es-
tablisb the verity of this asseveration. We will
mention one, that of Poetry,-for who will pretend
to deny that new era in this art has dawned upon
the world. The admirers of Pope, Campbell and
| Byron, have been suddenly awakened from an
idolitrDus trance, by the rich, gushing and ever
! VARYING strains breathed from the Tyres of con-
temporary authors The productions of the trio
Just mentioned, and others VINO rank equally as
| high-though at one time considered the very ne
plus ultra of perfection-are now being complete
ly cast into the shade by the sterling euslons OF
our own immortal bards 1t would be presumP-
ftion in US TO endeavor to point out the peculiar
merits of these highly gifted writer's We hope,
however. that we will not be considered sycophan-
tic. if we should say that their productions are ra-
diant with the beauties of lofty genius, glowing
with the fires OF poetic imaginary, and rich IN
newborn and glorious mentaliies. The produc-
lions of old authors must give way to those OF the
new school, which if we are not mistaken must
soon be received cordially within the purlleus oi
polished society, and be quoted with favor in fash
ionable literary coteries. In Peom recently
published entitled "Spring," the writer in speak
inr of the return of the ever-welcome warblers
perpetrates' the followng-the melody OF which
is only equaled by its oltness of sentiment;
"Some birds are white aud some are black,
And so am chmbly swal-0rs,
And some am red like daddys barn
That cost hundred dollars. >"
From another on " lntemperance," we Gull {
beautiful extract.
Gin am white and brandy red,
( That makes man "lumlcks,"
} |, snaps his eyes and reels his head,
, And downs his house ker- -fumicks."
, The intrinsic beauty and worth of the following
: lines must be apparent to the most casual observ
er. They are from an unfortunate sultor 10 hi
Iadv-ove. For elegance of diction and harmon,
. of yersification they stand unrvalled, and mus
!, enlist the kindest sympathies of the reader.
"Repulsed; O cannot bear the thought,
: 1t makes me all forlorn-ee
+ Remember the candies have bought,
Iin o Z IL for Calilorn-ee.
But the stanza given below, from 'miscelia
neous poem," for loftiness and purity OF sentimen
and perspecuity of style, may be said to De tn
brightest jewel in the caske:. 1t hurls defiance
: criticism itself and begGars all panegyric.
The night was dark, the rains fell fast
: When Judy lost her slippers,
= The winds were high-the fence fell down
And let in all the Z" critturs."
: We might 60 on making extracts ad-tntf'a'tum t
1. prove the merits of contemporary poets and to as
sist these who wish to cultivate taste for the sub
o lire-but we forbear. We would merely say c
: the snitors of those caprcious old maids, the Mu
= ses. that it is their manifest destiny to be tn
flights of the nineteenth century-to shine as star
IN ,be ARRAY Of intellect" SPOONS, in