The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-05-19

As the beautiful or the love Vi the
beautiful is universally preparation for
the highest Or Godlike inspiration, 80 poe.
try in the list Of fine arts takes the high.
est place, because it stands 0cri to nspi-
ration and is often menticok with it
Poetry is a priesthood in this respect,
that it is the popular organ of eternal
truth, aud ia like the worldly form Of Re.
ligi0n. As the science Of music is based
npon a mystical that is an involuntary
apprehension 10y means of sounds, which
can only be fst and not c1pJessed, so It's
with poetry, which clothes our IDEAS with
beautiful words. All our fine artists are
in one respect philosophers, aud in anoth.
er poets on creators, but not BY words
alone Poetry is not peculiarly fine art
BY ik~H, but the genius Of oHthe othtts.
1t is the most general Of u arts, and
takes within its universally all forms Of
the intellectual education Of the people.
1t may long mingle with cur daily lie be-
fore 1t comes to be reckoned as fine art,
being removed from nature, or idealized.
The versemakcr is in poetry to the true
poet, what in the scenc of Music the mu-
stefan is to the compose or virtuoso
The genuine poet must be las all true
artists in their own profession should be-
philosopher that is he must know the
laws OF common things, for without this
knowledge he cannot picture or naturally
idealize his creations therefore are psy-
biologists Disconnected with the Drama
where madmen are personated, because
the most richly endowed imagination is
not able to represent in reality and truth
human lie, devoid of reason. Shakes
peare alone is an exception, and his Opbe-
liza i'll Hamlet is the greatest effort of &C.
Mus which exists in this branch. A dis
tinguished psychologist makes this remark:
Shakespeare copied his character of
Ophelia from nature, for he could not
picture it truly and naturally, notwith-
standing his great genius, because he was
hea/&hy and Of s0"Hd mint, and had had
no personal experience Of the feelings of
one, deprived of reason"
The poet like the philosopher, has a
fountain within himself, his soul is con-
stantly full Of the human feeling, which is
the essence Of poetry, but for the power
of expressing those feelings he must wait
for the hour Of inspiration, He can and
must 'Hrent nothing, but only idealize
reality. Genius and bequty must mas
ter his fancy. Schiller, in whom was uni
ted every thing, which makes an artistic
| 11oet, in his correspondence with Goethe,
says: Poetry is ranked with the imits-
tive fine arts. NHure is always the be-
ginning of poetry, and poetry the cuim,-
noting po,tt of nature"
Every nation must possess according to
its natural character and amount of intel
lectual cultivation, certain kind of poe
try land especially peculiar versifeation,
either the 0ccehtHai or the 9uanttIaftve
rhymic ; the first We find among the an.
clients particularly, and the second amons
the moderns, notwithstanding the latter
can handle now'naiiy the former. Only
when the poet follows these laws, will his
poetry and versifcation be acceptable to
the spirit Of the people. The Greeks
had the Epic poem, and hexameter verse
Germans, romance and rhyme, &c. What
separates and distinguishes true 2oetru
from Pfi(oSophy is only the form of the
language. Poetry is rhymic philosophy,
prose the thoughts clothed in language.
In the soul Of true poet are chrystali-
zed his own feeling, thoughts and words,
into harmonic verse. 1t is not necessary
that he should file and polish them. We
see this exemplifed in the cases o. Homer
and Virgil; the last acquired his celebrity
by his scholarship which he habored to ac-
quire, while the other was by nature q
genius.
What symmetry is in Architecture, har-
mony of form inSculpture, color in Paint
ing, pathos in Tragedy, time, measure and
expression in Music, rhythm is in poetry,
which last goes hand in hand with Music,
both following one law. Rhynic thoughts
place our souls in more active state
than prose. Whole nations express their
proverbs and fsvorite sentiments in rhy-
mic form.
The youth of nation is that time,
when it is ruled by feeling alone, in other
words it is the poetcal part of its exs.
tence Prose belongs only to the period
of its manhood and old age
Finally, We come TO the difference be-
tween 8at"di poet''y and the poetry Of
cuhiraf'oH. The fra unfolds uncon
sciousy to the whole people and by ne.
cessity their capacity for poetry. Il
speaks especially in the notionai epic,-
The poetry Of cHhiUotion is the result
of contemplation, of meditation, of the
labor of u single poet. 1t gives only the
reflection of lite in the mirror of the sou
of single mansss. u. ts.,ss b.,
FATAL ACCIDENT AT PoRr HENRY. Or
Friday, April 80, Mr. William Champion
who for three years had been Chief En-
gineer Machinst at the works at Por
Henry was, walking up me '"ciinea olan'
on which train of empty cars were as
cendiug and inadvertently he seemed tc
have retained his course directly befor,
them, probably in deep thought regarding