Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-08-04


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li-A-a - Y<@s. .sd th~ hsss<r ealy his
gr.s~ snd <r-za -Th&asfzp~as Hal
irck md nrske had Tn s~iS o. them
selves, they dealt ehs~ey ~ith Isesl mat
Ter. .sd eE.s~Deral interests, yet there
x.s something In their perfwmaace %
asskeaing ssd insPirine. that their pub
fisher osce r-crived 6fteen initstioes in
. single day. HAlleck's Fanny prb-
iishet 10 1873. was - popular that the
publisher gave him $500 70 add fifty
stanzss 10 = new edition. This blending
Of humor with gentle sentiment and fine
descriptive poetry, embodied in metrical
forms Of great fuency and melody. was
something new in this country, and it
antedated hy several years the similar
work of Prxed, in England.
Halleck's literary activity is included
within period of ten years. Except
"Red Jacket" all the poems by which he
will be remembered were written before
1926; he ceased in the prime of his DOW
ers, and with forty years of his life still
before him. While retaining generous
interest in the productions of later au.
thors, he seemed to have entirely lost the
need of poetical expression, or to have
been discouraged by finding himself
fallen upon times with which he felt no
genuine sympathy. He was of the school
of Scott, Campbell, and Moore, and its
only American representative. Hence it
is perhaps not singular that, after the
death of Byron and Scott, and the silence
of Rogers, Moore, and Campbell; when
the reaction against all of these had
much diminished their former victorious
popularity, and the stars of Coleridge,
Wordsworth, and Keats we're rising at
last-Halleck should have surmised that
the taste of his old audience was not re-
newed in their children. He was too
proud to betrsy the least sensitiveness on
this point-if, indeed, he had any; his
life was in noble contrast to that of those
authors whose later years are soured by
attriouting natural failure to the per-
verse misconception Of readers or the
malice of critics.
In his personal opinions and habits Hal
leck also belonged to the Past. Its
only ten years since his massive, dis
tinguished head, and the erect, dignified
carriage os his form, were seen, from
time to time, on Broadway; and no one
could pass him without feeling the mo-
mentary contact of another age. Although
the descendant of Pilgrim family (and
from Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians,
on the mothers side), he inherited the
rOyalist sympsthies of his father, who
acted as British commisssry during the
Revolutionary War. He had no faith in
the republican form of government; he
was profoundly antagonistic to every
movement to which the epithet of
"progress" was attached; and there was
much in the literature of our generation
which he found almost as incomprehensi-
bic as new language. The latter half
of his life was an anachronism. He
represented the views, the tastes, the
feelings, Of a century ago; but he also
represented the simple Unborn truth, the
lofty sentiment Of honor, the fine an
tisue courtesy of The Gentleman of that
period. In these respects, he needed no
element of "progress, our day
could teach him nothing better.
Now and then IN attempt il made to
disparage Hallesk's services to our litera-
ture. His best defense will be found in
the memory Of the people, who ask for
no criticism when they know what they
like. For fifty years they have read and
recited "Marco Brzxaris, "Barns," and
"Rrd Jacket" and they will coG:inue TO
do % for hfty yeArs 70 come what
young men are sure % like, said great
poet, --canpos fail 20 live; fos there will
alsays be yoaax mea in the void
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