Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-06-17
From the Louisville Journal
The Spasmodlo sohool of Poetr,

The Spasmodlo School of Poetry! e
Never since The time when the Brothers smith
convulsed With laughter the literary men of si,
rope anu Amenca by their sfReiecte,lt Addresses,,
and NV arreniaiia," in which they impaletl ALI tte
leading poets OF England on The cross OF fheir 9,
ule' mast llere been ricberpiece oil. amusmentsin
ne literary way than is furnished ingthe r.cant
May number of Blackwood AT the time that HoN
race and ames Smish had their day of finn: re-
Lake schooi' OF poetry was reaching townr,issits
cuiniiha'illg point sWords@orthand Soutiiy were
Inc targets ior lle wit of Byron and his friends
The poetry OF the latter was tenominaie,l fbe u.s.
tahiog schoohrS Who, that .wns prspared ;byra.i
proper naas rstanding of Wsrdsworth,s poetry To-
snloy Iich salire, will eyer forget the uCumber
su ., oil the Smiths, in which Words,
ssot.h ,'FAStsr Bell was described as wandering
among the Helnucrag, Hannah Scar, Silver. How
aha Lousirrgs of Cumberland, inscribine upon
me upper lace ofthe cIils the words: s.Buy War
isns GUESSING i Our Washington Irving con-
III The style Vt the Ske.ch, Book puffof
The backing. Charles Mills Contributed mn nnii.
quallan record, tracing the Warren family 10 the
oeisaaes. Southey enriched the blacking uoetry
WIN a.'oarmen Triumphale,' p Old exit Nortli,D
as,, Cellar, with hot teddy side,
anu o.Doherty on the other, was enthusiastic
aoout NV arten's backing. Byron appeared in the
opencerian measure discoursng as e.oouently of
lie backing as he did in tsChilde Haroid'' of the
oea"ties oil natuie and IN Switzerland and Italy,
SnIerldges Dream for the backing seems to be the
very INSPIRATION, o. opium One of The most sue
cesstul hits is made intrayestying Brungham Tn.
celebrated scene between that gentlemen and
ueofSe canning Is made 10 occur during a.debate
Blackwood's Magazine for May undertakes to re-
view aftrngedy called FirmIian pur,,ortine 10 be
written by i, Percy Jones. III any reader II these
tsmatks Is IN especial wbnt of IAN usement, we
advise HIM read The extracts from this trapelv
Blackwood thus sums up Observation-Disclosures 81 th
spaSmodIc school oil poetS:'' 81 the first place.
they rarely u ever attempt anything like a plot
Alter you have finished the perusal Of theiryer-
SEES, you find yourself Just as wise as when vo,,t
hogan. You canhot tell what theyswould be a 4
fon have confused recoilec n of star an sun.
beams and inoonbeafns, rs il yuu had been staring
Mt an orrery; bnt the sun, moon, and staes were
tatehded 10 give light 40 something.-anJ whnt
lhat something IS, IN the poets page, you cannot,
Tor The OF you discover. In the IS cond place,
we regret to say, that they are often exceedingly
proihle, not, we suppose Intentionally, but be-
cause they have not SENSE enough To see the limits
hichtecency,gas well as duty, preScribes.5i,in
The tird place, they are occasionally very nJ,r;
ent. And in the fourth place, they are almost al
Ways unintelIigible:''
ne hero oil the pseudo tragedy, which Black
wood calls Firmllan, is q Spanish student at Bad.
aioz, and he is represented as exceedingly unxons
10 win fame by s'storming Tue redoubts of public
iavor" The hero feels that il is Necessary To lie
guilty oil actual crimes, in order to sspile up tile
agony argfit, and he wades ntI crime mute. nm
tDlscut uSly He poisons several of his fellow
creatures yely much III The style OF Luctezia Bor-
gla anu his cruelt'eS IN love among the farest
gems OF TIE age, They are perfectly unique and
original and pave the way Tor final that is not
exeeetied by anything in the Agamefnnon of.
Esehylus. They are classic touches IN this nor
uon oil rmilinn that must be studied 10 be an
preciaied nj anything like their full value. We
shall recur to partot 1t directly. But in order
10 enabil the reader to understand that norion
We must premise that, among other strange freaks
al the iIero lie cmbS TO The Top of the pillar of ST.
Sln1n Slylites. nd4here meditates upon t. deeds
oil guilt, He finds that things are not ,atiocious
enough. He deems that it is essential thai ne
shall kills SOME bosom friend, SO that his soul
81 .'Might have acquired fruitiop or its wish,
And shrieked detrons at the taste of SIM,
In order to accomplish this wish, Frmilian deter
mines upon j. a. Webstedan touch He ap-
points a meeting with Hayeril'o, 10 take up q
note which WINS due, and makes the rendezvous OIL
the top of
can old saints pillar which no human foot
Hath scaled this hundred years., ~
Hayerllo after great struggle, climbs TO the ton
OF the pillar and, after little colIoquy Haver-
lilo says: So
''You told me yesterday TO meet you here,
And And, you :, ~, would ray meeash witIlinlerest,
Firmilian ends the matter by hur,lng, Haveriiio
from the pillar. This deed, which Fifrnilian lo-
ped would make him ..deitious at the taste of
sin," IS afterwards Teietred to by the cho:us
while upbra1ing INN with his evildeeds, cs a re-
deenng trait in his career In order 10 under
stand this wemust Introduce u new character
While the two friends the creditor md l.htor arc
standing on the. lie Inn of ft,. lIor i, 81 ,..
- '.'5 " ,us '''S up VI VIC Filidf ol CT. Sltnou
otyiH9S, apollodorus, critic, comes toward the
pillar, and places himself al its fout I.for. NV
mn he seen,s I'm ,,,b5c Il A 5,,It,iJ,s,,c
4 e e -, ~. 'i = nSeIes, ltlnay
VIC WSil eHough 10 say mat zapollodoruS Is full
length dagueueotype; of George Gillian, author of
astGallery of Literary Pnrtr,iis.,, an,,sa "a,
;,.,,, &c r.. ~, ss,.
~ ..;, spgs'n9usc sciool 81 wfllefs which
,,or ,s,e e We
n nnr.s sreant NJ, no IN a. a " i s " ~
- P'utS t'"" a poitouotu Is OF Geo.
UlHilaH. Ahq III our lileni Hewitt with his re-
far richer 4 han he VS. nv
.v.r ,n,L &c h,,r -
sketch Of (sil6ti,n - ,na. no r., e LEU '''ie
nja5,. st tb,. ,sa1ar a ms ioi.uhe
g.sn.I, INC teauet ilnaelhs q poilouorus, alas
loot OIL The Saints DillF