New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-19
SKETCHES OF LECTURES.


OF his Course above Hope Chapel before the Mer
camille Library Association. Notwithstanding the rain
the room was crowded "a usual. with fashionable
audience The lecturer warmly appau led on making
s appearance and several times throughout his discourse
lie said:
There are two spring tides in the life of men that live
ont their full time. The first is that which rolls with
the golden food Of morning. each of whose moments Il
wave which floats before the and fragrant
breath Of heaven. This is the time Of love and hope
aui at TIL, time young men write verses, who have
OILY the feeling of the beautiful without the power of
y Expressing IT, This class of poets repeat the standard
phrases OF their style Of o0mpostonbut they have this
usiifcaOn-Nature, too repeats herself the morning
and evening stars retuTn bni the youth mus IN love
with beauty have the real gift Of poetry he hy expresses
his feeling thus the hymn of Milton with but the Of
twenty his cheek is m to be sung by the
him This first tide flows back; maDhO1d comes, and
Law. naked the long fats of reality; then the
waters flow in again. bat do not now bear with them the
rich gifts OF the early food instead they perhaps bring
the fragments OF what held youth passionate and
wise venture But this tide carries with il Of wis
dom than the other And now It's time to sing again the
saieest Of the muses. offers Tyre from Heaven sing
now Oh poet thy best song, or be heard 10 more. o
second Tide to him of whom | speak to day The
sad story of a young poets life has never been so
tendely told as in that of John Keats. The
which fitted him to contends and Henry ktke
While was fortunate IN maay circumstances l1e
Little or! Of k@.s NAV be told in few sentences lie
was toin in 1896 in humble crcumsanc ana az egh
tom was uticed TO surgeon. In all his writings
Cnd only one word indicative OF hs professional training
the word feel used in the surgical sense. No dou0
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studied classics IL Is good thing to save few iyes
brt II il better 70 infuse life into cur L.
eusre At twentyt whom he should have been
putting 10 the sign "Jchn Keats, Surgeon, the slight
iest iavofs or feters gratefully received he did bet
ter lie published Endymon. He poured forth his arm
full Of towers and Clifford the tearer up Of mushrooms
was turned in TO snort over !hem oioFds severe cr
csm drove Keats almost 10 insanity To which Is attr6u
ted tie CONNER cemcnt Of tie disease which led to his
death; but probably he had naturally the seeds OF that
illness wbieh is so often connected wiki the poetic temper
MT Iip Agneg
and other poems appeared in 1920 and in the same
year lie died. IS due TO jeffrey to say that kind
notice ty him of tie work appeared in August OF
II at year When the experienced jeffrey found It dit
fcult to analyze Endymon ! may content myself VAN
few remarks upon it, Il is the fist fall burst Of virgin
-o is flowers are inumerabo. The first impression In
reading K Is that il flows too easily, too like prose
DE customary refining up a. The Cnd Of the verses Is miss
cd he Oh stepping stones Of Pope are below the surface
The food poetic thought hem The impression
LETT By End mion is little than succession OF beau
tiIu thoughts Ike dssoving pictures in which the cross
Of ST. Peters becomes the beak OF gun boat and this
rts into the leading feature the cOuntenance of the
late Gen TAYLOR would be a. hardto write them as the
note Of an Eolan harp Keats has said hal the end o.
poetry soohe the and The and
this lie himseihas done To borrow London word, EDdy
mOn il the most stunning poem written under II
man might have tooth out under chlOroform. The
story is the old the most romantic OF tales the cold
goddess Cynthia falling IN love. II has some Of the I'M
IeTfeeOns Of youth lut young poets should be spared
there should be law for them for young birds whom
any BOBBY can blow pieces bat ii il better 10 let them
sIefes but the nightingale pOelsl il Of the
II os sensitive things in nature and the critic is called into
every green thing that shows itself below certain hight
instantly de Cured But there should be law II protect
Young poets except from friendly criticism and if spark
has taken hold of the rubbish in their atcs is better
leave the cOnagration morning paper than 70 bring
deuCe upon it, But il the ad0esceut has the true mate
rial in him, hands off rather hands on gently lie
n rulis down his stake tmidy; the old cToupier Time,
esi up the youth is in moral perspiraton; do not
throw open The window LAMA was published two years
al,r Endymion. It's sto'y can be shortly told Mercury
eds who tells him she IS woman, and In love.
lie gives her back her female shape and Lycius, the
Youth she loves WEEDS her His tutor. the sage Apollo.
comes uubidden the wedding feast his looks arc
hsod The bride with terrible meaning that she
hlr from her lover who expires aftr being niormtd 10y
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merely ur the iuiurvsi If the MID tale ITSELF and It's
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