The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-12-07
Gossip about Living Poets.

From the Home journal.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT recently
celebrated his eighty-second birthday,
haveing been born Nov. 8, 1874, in
Cumington, Mass. He looks little over
three-score-and-ten, having still an
erect figure and elastic step. He shows
his vigor and fondness for exercise by
walking, as he quantity puts it, stevery
morning down to the Evening Post.
The poets head and face is covered
with liberal supply OF silvery locks,
and he rather takes pride in seeing
his classic and venerable self as others
see him, for there is scarcely photog-
rapher in town who has not a fine
portrait of Bryant. At pubic dinners
he may often be seen, and at speech
making he is not at all backward. Al
though he is frequently to be met in
the streets of the city, he rarely at
tends the opera or theatre. Mr.. Bryant
writes so little poetry now he may be
said to have laid down the Tyre; but
of general literary aud Journalistic Ia.
Dor he still performs a great deal OF
| work.
Mr.. Tennyson, now sixty.six 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
boned, but not stout. His hands and
feet are large. His face is long, and
somewhat resembles that of Dante.
save that it has not the rigid mould
and expression of the great Florentine,
/ - ~
hair is long and black, his complexion
olive. Once upon time, in speaking
of Mr.. Tennyson' s personal appearance.
Buchanan Read called him "a delapit-
ated Jupiter"-a piece OF description
at once picturesque. acute and humOr'
GUS. ),
Whittier is sixty-eight years old and
q most quaint, kindly, and refined per-
son, using habitulaly the Quaker
..thee" and s.thou"
Henry w. Longfellow is year older.
and wears we'll the dignity OF the gen.
tleman and the poet.
Lowell is fifty-seven, and has the
looks of the critic rather than the poet.
/ Stoddard is So years old, about five
feet 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 fled at the public crib in the Gus
toms service but now his whole time
, is occupied in contributing to the mag
, azines and newspapers. The right
) hand being paralyzed, Mr.. Stoddard has
learned to write with his left. Stod-
a. dard's wife is a writer Of no mean
!; ability, and has made reputation for
) herself in the literary world.
Thomas Bailey Aldricn, just 40 years
3 of age, was born in New Hampshire
: laid the foundation for his reputation
! in New York; wrote ''Babie Belle
while he was in his teens. and now re-
Z sides in Boston. Aldrich's reputation
3 as poet and novelist lis increasing
!. and improving, foreign critics of high
0 authority placing him among the first
American writer's. He has had some
experience as an editor and literary
critic, having commenced his career II
the Office Of the Home Journal. Aid
rich has a wife and several children.
William Morris, the poet, lives IN
! charming house in London, frightened
: nv the presence of wife and thret
Drettv children. His study Is reached
: by three fights of stairs, and Is barr
:. room, hung with Jumps OF tobacco
: and having for writing purposes Gu
= rions hacked table and an ancient ink
d horn. Herein the Earthly Paradise
! was written. The shaggy-haired, kind
2 faced poet never looks handsomer thai
y when his little ones are dancing about
8 him and climbing over him.
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