Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
Gossip About living Poese.

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William Cullen Bryant recently cele.
orated his 82di birthday, having been
born Nov, g. 1894. in Cumington, Mass.
he LOOKS little over three score-and- ten,
having still an erect figure and elastic
step. He shows his yigor and fondness
for exercise by walking, as he qaaiatly
putstf, "eTery nsor1ing doSg. to hiss Ire.
ming Post, The poets head and face
are covered with liberal supply of sill
very locks, and he rather takes a pride
in seeing his classic and venerable self
as others see him, for there is scarcely
photographer in town who has not q
fine portrait of Bryant. AT public din
ners he may often be seen, and at speech
making he is not at all backward AL
though he is frequentylto be met in the
streets of the city, he rarely attends the
opera or theater. Mr.. Bryant writes so
little poetry now he may be said to have
laid down the Tyre but of general lit
erary and journalistic labor he still per-
forms great deal of work.
Mr. Teppyson, now sixty fix years
old, is still in his prime of thought and
| capacity for work The only i'll he's
heir to is an annual hay fever. He is six
feet high, broad-shouldered and large
UOuSus Dub HUI SLOubs 1At5 anu
| feet are large His face is long, and
somewb resembles that of Dante, save
| that he has not the rigid mould and ex-
preston of the great Florentine, and
the nose is not so aquiline. His hair is
long and back, bis complexion olive,
Once upon time, in speaking of Mr.
Tennyson's personal appearance, Bu-
chanan Read called him "a dilapidated
T,,nifmrD v,T, Of -
| picturesque, acute and humorous.
Whittier is sixty eight years old and
| most quaint, kindly, and refined per-
son, using habitually the Quaker "three"
and Chou"
Henry w. Longfellows year older,
and wears well the dignity of the gen.
tleman and the poet.
| Lowell is fifty-seven, and has the look
of the critic rather than the poet.
| Stoddard is Sc years old, about five
feer nine inches high, and wears full
iron gray beard. This author looks
every inch poet, and in conversation
is bright and witty. For fifteen years
he ''fed at the public crib" in the Gus
toms service but low bis whole time
is occupied iD contributipg to the maya
| Zines and newspapers The right hand
! b. ing faraiyzed. AIF. Stoddard has
| learned to write with his left hand
Stoddard's wife is writer of no mean
| ability, and has made reputation for
| herself in the literary world.
TIL omas Bailey AldIich, just forty
years of age, was born in New Hsmp-
| shire; laid the foundation for his repu-
| tation In New York wrote ''Bobie
| Belle" while he was in his teens, and
now resides in Boston. Aldrich's rep
| utation as a poet and novelist is increas-
| ing and improving, foreign critics of
high authority placing him among the
| first American writer's. He has had
| some experience as an editor and liter
| airy critic having commenced his career
| in the ottce of the HCnle aIos,TNat, a.
| drich has a wife and several children.
| William Morris, the poet, lives IN q
charming house in London, frightened
| by the presence of a beautiful wife and
three pretty children. His! study is
reached by three flights of stairs, and is
/ q bare room, hung with Jumps of tobac-
co, and having for writing purposes a
/ curious hacked table and an ancient ink
| horn. Herein the Earthly Paridase"
was written. The shaggy haired, kind
faced poet never looks handsomer than
when his. little ones are dancing about
him and climbing over him. Home
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