New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06
tfrrRiTuHE IN ENGLAND.
r,,,ner ci Tho NY. 1nlune.

Nest of the great uuiuates OF our literary word
hat rose So LARGE and brilliant on the nineteenth cen
tu,y have crossed the zenith Of our sky, and gone
down. ONLY few OF al, that host are with us now
and the, hang trcmb Ing on the horizons verge aooas
a, AN and We watch ,hem snxiously, fearing, lest
s,,h s,nm,r should he the last Shelley aud Keats
xsr, earliest sken IRON, US, az though they were inc
fct Beloved Of the gods and one by one the re nave
,,ue, frcm Byron TO Scot-fom Scott 10 Words"oit"'
,he flower of our era in politics, Oraofy AL Poe'r!
and now tie hand dwindlcs 10 Two or thTee' NC
Cuircy Leigh Hunt. Lsnior, aud I'm wilson oe'Ae
The chef those who reman. Glorious ola C"'''
rho, North lcs there in Scotland with the mana VI
lca,h on lin sud tie cold. oemn sh"s'" '' '"'
stealing over lc What merry bouts OF VII VIC "''o
had with him. and what anbrosiai niSu's "I
,r,ut tcschcr but the song IS ehue" ' 10 Jsrtu,
m,l,J and The lord of the FEAST laAes h'e ng.
He has run Lis career ana 'Is a,ain that we t,sel
afhs is NOW WRECK. The msuh.au t1aV VIC uoI'
-, 49,, 70 with such expectancy. is cJld ana uarh
- m emit 10 more fashc. OF VIZ or PASSION, W
nc Wilson is one of those spirits VINO sta'' III
a., race with tie loi,ics' aspirations "nu pGu's' Plos
,;.sfcps armed at every point ani mighty 10 over
80, III =, loom uron us with such large pTOp0ruchs
~ ,uch flush Of glory clnes about them, tney seem
M, lie early gods, looming upon US through the ua
Islt of tine But somehow, they 40 not Ioac" ,.o SO
- nropbecy Tie flower OF their promise DIES out
h., ,tn Unit does not follow. The w0ndrous imprcs
on Of ,hcir powers which they produce upon men iu
,ncoste circle Of fIielc ana ADMIRERS uOcs not go
slammed upon tie world and me puohc rePutatoh VI
Cb,ist,,bc North bears no comparison I'D 'na1 CO
a.; Ellis genius entertained Oy ms lovers anu "o
I;ners Iley are apt to speak OF what he might nave
due We have TO Judge oil what he has actud! "1ool
nlish,d They stand on the summit oil their adhiia,
lin ard sneak Of land OF promise we cannot see anu
~; n~It IN us seems exarperated John Wilson has
lived his life rather than written IT. k!chy endoNSu'
no has layshed his precious gifts IN so many ways
,,tler tlan concentrate them IN one, ana no 'n can
he he reriect master in ell. les not scotland great
est SON. but next TO Barns where sAdh VIC n"' h''
And here is Walter Savage Lander with ms
~Iast Truit off an old Tree who in the mournfullest
words tell US:
"Iarovs with nom. for was worth ny s;Iife
Nature loved snd next 70 ne.are Az
IL 'inI, saG am ,oGdy to deport"
Bu we trust this is not the last Fruit the Tree that
bore such nav be old, but must have vigorous sap
running in H. and budding capabilities stil IS run
ia sound ard ripe and wears as fch bloom az any
that was gathered years ago Such haie Od uce
must have another good crop IN IT, Byron haa Ms
,neer AZ the author Of Gebr' in the English Bards
".nd Scotch Reviewers" but think Lander may
calmly abide the question OF posterlty win inc poet
peer Tie reputation OF Lander has oeen oI SLOW
Growth as most things are that are built TOT lmmor
tality He is not at all welknown or widely read III
England perhaps not go much so as IN America wmch
is lie ease with several Of best living writers, In
GLIDING De Quincy, the BrOwnings, aud Iennyson ;
hut lie has glorious imagination, and peerless orr
ginalty. He is like one OF the Old GREEKS WORKING IN
modern English such is the ideal grace, the piercing
pprty and the severe strength OF his writings. Our
modern style Of writing is essentially OF the IlctOria
School, and mary who carve III marble are c0lorists
But Landors st lie is the stauesque, calm ana grand
and doubtless tho more cternaly true. LahdOr mas
ALWAYS been sieneed down in high places as there ex-
lists an nfuperaile objection t. him there HIS poll
ties 90 against him, all his tendencies and sympathes
being republican. But he has superb and careless
rcorn for popularity There is no man who SO much
reminds us of brave John Milton as Walter Savage
Iandor-Jobn Milton, as he walked amidst world OF
fees "batng no jot Of heart or hope" hemmed III by
royalists but republican still Lander can stu grip
his pen as though were the dagger ta'
AIDE, not down and fling such words as these ABROAD;
"lhe Americans have declared their sentiments feey,
loudly widely. consistently, against the violence ana Per
fdy OF Russia and Austria they must 40 greaty moe
ey mutt offer asylum to whoever. rising MP against
thall in the absence of law and justice have
sam thofe who caused il. COnspraces will never more
erst 1.-TWO persons but preferably one will undertake the
glorious task which not only antiquity appauded, bat
Which has been appauded year after year. generation al
eeneson century after century, IN the secuson OF
COLI and rased the first tumut In the DOyish heart
A comfortable doctrine that for his kNol rsHIr OF
Russia and that sleek young dabbler IN blood the muir
derer of Hungary, and the hope OF his cOuntry.
There are no signs Of the speedy publication of Car
Nle's work on the Life and Times OF Frederick The
Great He has not had the best health OF ate,'but "
better now His mother died on Christmas day
Thomas Carly lie, ana MS DfOtbeT, r. CaIilIc' oho v
the translatOrs Of Dante, were at the funeral.
T,npyson is silent, or sings darking n his Iwlck
eulam retreat He occasionally gives some evidence
10 select friends, that We shall one day have hi
"Kirg Arthur" an epic poem, but Iernyson Is
wire man. and dOeG not rush into publication hastily
Whatever he does is matured and rpened and per
fected, beyond any poetry OF this century Words
worth has heaps OF tares mixed with the generous mar
vest ofhs verse and both Byron and Shelley have lei
lots of lines which they would have destroyed a
both" ifthey two had lived longer but the same can
not be said OF TeIny SON. Bulwer has done Kin
"Arthur" and of our critics auded 1t much NOR
loudly than judicOusly. . ,
The poems of Frederick ennyson are advertised t
spp. ar Immediately. The great Alfred is his uncle
poetically, lie is his father and the likeness Is yer
great Indeed one is apt to suspect that some belll
Serent branch of the family have put up an opposto
candidate to prove that they too can produce poet
A third volume Of Alexander Smiths poems is JUS
published vet in spite of the continued sale, aud tn
almost unanimous Civilizations of the critics who hav
apotheosized the poet an opinion prevails anon
our quiet thinkers and persons of good judgment tina
there has been considerable deal OF go5s voucher
on this topic and that the public have been somewha
takenin The fact is, critics as body, don res
poetry they don't know what poetry is, and hearing
such large rumors of Smith, they were compelled 4
read him. and like tectotallers who break and &c
drunk for the first time, il mas had tremendous etiec
them They have no yet recovered from the de0auch
Alexander Smith hasa much larger faculty of Wonder
than locality, and so have the public generally The!
have the faculty to be asonshed and he has the powe
Of astonishing them TO striking extent. People Hat
to be sstonished, and how little it takes 10 asonisl
them That's the worst feature in their applause, yos
have 10 share IL with Aztec detornites, and bulls hang
ing pendant TO Cremorne balloons We do not wish Il
underrate this faculty of Wonder. As concOmitan
Of poetry says some very fire things, but ldeaity Ii
the true eroare force it is that which always gives ia,
presepce of thought The harvest of Smiths portry