The Yellowstone journal., 1893-02-10
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le.re oambrtiao ~ Inc Poetry ..
Women. ,tkiny IL ins pricH.a.
t4Ai the p.ruIs. ~ Christina 10 -ctu
Nn sound c,uir.w... pretend ,!."i
woman la. added anything in The
sum ot niaic attainment III tines" mt
lor binncil., IF art Tie reason y
apparently THAI the ariiatt' nature !"
not strongly developed n hef Si''
iia. energy Imagination. eei''i'itih
invention lit she has not the nri.S
tic impulse The ea,iirtiiinittr lrni-
ot the world have bcen great artists
liz Shakespeare. tornellir, Goethe.
Pop. and Keats We zee the nfiini
above all else. above the man III III
telle,l ur vision Ia II much lower
rank 1T poets we ind the VISION or
the etllca. blar prelnndcrhting In
the greatest men the nrt Il, para
mount
/ But women II the main entrances
seem to ls denied them. ascend INTO
4 the hu,,t,,, of poetry by other doors
/ Lyrical vcrn. owes 81 much IL them
i that we may easily forgive thcir
i limited success III other directions.
The lyric, which h. II spontaneous. J't
i ot music, an cliniiiniipn forced IRON
the heart 10y in excess al lrciii's, u"
mairI, les, art than any other form
t.,. L. i,s.
Species ot poetry y .iich can r' ~
ccli,ni IN liz KIND AMI y"i wholly
nrtlcs,s. The border inilui@ have ~
nrt and yet arr. exquisite hid tir
history Of poetry II adorned hy Ger
tam female name, which viii n'Ha5n
preserve ti.eir trcslii,.sS and which
yet were entirely inirr'.ht oi art
Such are Emily i;rnnir III England!
and Marcelinc Dc4in,rlrs NaI,nni,. ~
France We do moi know whether
with extended opportunities women
will continue to rhow themselves IN
sensible to or incapable ot III. high
ent literary arr hitherto they Ger
tainiy have been one or tn. other.
ANY ono whose privilege II has
tn.en to en- Joy the friendship nf sue
cenafnl women of letters knows how
much more tl,cy are always "cupital
with literature IL. II profession than ,>
anart how httlc they are able t"r"n
Ceivc the doing Of work for its own
sake not tor its result how cOnScl
entio,ia, industrious ami persistent
they are. and how Iiltle they IN,
troubled with The scrupl,n and th,
Iassi,udc OF the artist II is then
lyric gift. their cry from the height
or the depths Of feeding that has w"i
them that place upon i'atinas,ts !r"n
which no De Quincy n"r t"y d'
Maupassant can eJect them
havcticncd poetic art 10 woinci
mainly that may gave myself til'
luxury of attrihut,ngi II to Miss hrs
! tina kuasctti To screen myself IRON
tho charge ot extravaganza Wii
say at once that think the mann III
p terest OF the position "f tins write
, in the history III poetry ~ the Tao
, that she individually possesses III.
ouality winch Is denied 10 many he'
, of genius and 10 almost all women
/, Mrs Browning was forces III !iters
ture IL peraonagc demanding ua
, yc,sui recognition for her ,n,elleetu.
e. power, her majestic imagination Az
! her independence of other htefAf
T. influences but she WAS moi an arts
e. That titlr applied 10 George Saud ,
j. Gaorrc Ehot would be- equally mn
II nomer. What Lord Tennysrn VA
= what flauhert WAS II /. surely pi.i.
\ thai the,c great women could not l.,
> But precisely tins, III u RESTRICTS
measure, II s,eens 10 rnr thai NJ
y ko.,sttli H., and that isolation ot her
I M apparently the solitary wonia
I poet OF the Anglo Saxon race "
!" cultivates poetry as one oi tue Ill
Il arts, caves the study OF her verse a
Il cspecial interest ST. James Ii
4 Eette
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