The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-18


:uay be exercised. He may idealize and
mould into forms Of the beautiful, the
universal sentiment and thought Of the
race which under various phases Of de.
velopment remain the same forever. Such
was Shakespeare in his massive sim
plicity. The poet may address certain
emotions and, a Burns for example,
! picture in immortal words distress OF
jolli6cation. He may captivate US by
taking hold Of our moral and speculative
feelings at once, IS Tennyson. Again he
may win our hearts through the inspired
embodiment and infusion of q peculiar
spirit into simple rhymes. ss tn. author
Of the deserted Village" These are
the wider spheres of the poetic art, and
one who is not born into the pure atmo-
sphere should beware of giving express
sion to his narrower split, where world
wise poetical critics. if not world wise
poets are listening to him. Bret Harte is
essentially small poet and gave a fatal
stop to his reputation when he presumed
upon an exaggerated mead of praise. and
would essay in Boston, higher flights
than his short wings had been aecus-
toned to in his nursery, California.
Bret Harte had his sphere and nobody
will doubt his mastery. therein. Popular
language is full of poetry. And if ever
there was richness and originality in the
language Of the people, they existed
s:.rely in the phraseolosy of early times
in California. Bret Harte had much
work to do in this his happy
realm. He made a good beginning, and
apart from the proverb, We have very
good reason to believe that he could have
finished tina. work with credit to himself,
if he had not lost his reckoning and wan
dered away from home. He has by
analogy made the same mistake that cast
so dark shadow upon the history of
Horace Greeley. The great journalist
had better continued such. and have stood
alone IL. his profession. And after all as
il is questionable whether the presiden-
tial chair would have added to Greeley'S
fame, so it really seems that any success
which Har:e might have attained in the
cold cut crystalized style of the Hub "
would have added but enthusiastically TO
the good name of tho wit who had SO
FAMED the language of large class of
people that his lines were used in the
United States Senate with overwhelming |
eject by a great statesman. We hope
for the sake Of our coast language, that |
Bret H.rte will return and 60 on with
his appropriate work. We hope so also
for the poets DUN sake, for he is not q
scholar and can not AVOID subsection to
shame in an atmosphere that is
heavy-may be too heayy-with illusions
of polished literature We hope that he
will return moreeTer because much
Of the Pacific Coast finding only
partial and awkard expression in
prose is apt to become stagnant.
LIT him return for our sahes esd fer the
sakes OF those v no hereafter skan search
Tor the history of early days in the 50 Far
Vest for We believe he can select still
much further and continue to embody in
poetic forms, the words of our people.
He can raise for MS what We're called in
ancient poetry, winds of the s,ul," to
leep our home atmosphere of passion and
aacy in healthful motion and agitation,
o thereby purify it and preserve
t purified against that unwholsome stag
nation which may render it impossible
or tie future historian of the coast to
ook into the peculiar home life of the
,arly settlers of California and Nevada