, 1874-01-11
A TALK WITH EMERSON.
Els Views on Prominent Eitr-,r
C21lrac&cry.

| Els Views on Prominent xftr-,-
Charac2cry,.
L writar in Fronk TesEs. Tu,,s.-o,os ,~-
none,. had = conroraa,;ou r;+,. D.,s. a re1s 4s
- f1fe' A"o . IVY A9A.ion "1Aa ha1pa Waldo
1"eesoa, ~ Tue iatsers home IN Concord, re-
Gently. obtaining from him tbs following opin
/ ions upon the leading lights in literature:
| He said this ia tha aee of ac:a .,a ~ s..
nol1;,. h,,t r,,,o. - 49, ,.1s,- o 49, elo'c1o-
psoaaa' ~, ous nuco o1 our lascts-acauired knowl
eoge WILL De cropped IN tho future. Literary
| supremacy may bo transferred tLe same as DO
| Isical suDremacr Ene1and hna hall - -
| aat hnt = h,s ,,u 1of. hou s..a no ~ ''.la
| r.a,a.t ~ - na.,a'. s" tr Do.' A11 0econe tos
fAopo4's VI oe1tnaos. Lee WHO knows bur it
may belong to the United States tefore long.
] He said ono cannot read too much Of Goethe.
| Il was nnfortnn.ta 10y. .,,.a .' 10 'nooses
.n.:.. ~ "sa s so.o ,.a 'nAs .nls nasscfplece' she
representative literary product OF the nineteenth
century. should he merely negative IN its
intcut He drew contrast between ..Fanstn
and shakspoare's plays, in this respect.
marked that Arthur Hugh Coughs pce1us were
faultT for the samc reason Is Faust ia
thought Margaret Fuller was great convetsa-
tionaliYt and a fine letter-yritcr. BIZ. hor rnh.
1ished works are not Remarkable. Toriswnr:,
is the great English poet. in spite Of Potter Raj;
(Baine Il. His Ode on Imn,orta1ity toncj,es the
hieh-watcr mark of modern literature. IN th;s
connection he said that in order to really appro
CiRte pntule one SHOULD bo p0Or and Eirt. in tina
country as did Wordsworth =: 1R-the nost sns-
ccntibIe .re-and have no other means ~ ~.
ioT1nept except communication with the nhrs;c.t
world around. Waiter Savage Landor viii
alvays be read by tho seIect few. Na,the.,
Arnold is growing tco difrnsiyc His .savcet.
ness and LIGHT has BECOME heavy es lead w;fh
ton much repetition. Hn liked trnoli'a cr;t;c,i
eysay yery much. but vas not nartia, tn hs
poetry, Saiute-Deuyo is the Great Frennh
writer, He said. II don't meddIe with Au~1st
Comto. ~ ia recly to the onestion whether he was
interested in the Po8itiYa Ph;ioso,f,y.
Uo condemned Swinourno severely A = nerfecs
leper and mere Sodomite, which criticism re-
calls Cariyle's scatbnc description of that noet
-. man standing no to his nect in a cessnoo1
and adding to it's contents. Norris. the a,,thor
of nTha Earthly Paradise. ia mat the o,nos;t,
Of awinburne. and will beIn to nentraI1za tia I'D
Influence on tho nublic. parhans Morris NAV h.
rnnked eecond tn Cnaucnr far Ii-nni1itr All
swee.nesa Of yarse. HBut then. he added ssit
ia had to bo ourr second in ANYTHING" Afcott
he apt1y descrited as man WHO rsa1s Plass,
without 6urDrieo. When I mentioned having
written to tia f1rnhic Sare wi.bonr tho lattcp
reaching him Sr Emerson smijcd and snid
..The Post-Offica authorities don't know snr.
thing about auch,men as he"
Tboreau was true con1us. and 80 great NJ,
his mastery Of the nhennme,a nf NarnTe That 4
would need another I;nnnns. ns we'll "a n rnet
properly to edit his writinrs. Matthew Arnold's
ami eciation At :foca1,Iav hc fboncht woa ;rat
..h.;1o = ~ .,.o;coa T.....et ,;.-..1.o