The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-02-07
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LONDON, Eng,
September 18th, 1895.
left YOU C ,nsidering thePleasnres OF
Hone. we next come to bust of Robert
Southev, one of the famous group OF
Lake School Poets, whose death occur
red in 1918. Southey was poet, scholar,
antiquary, critic and historian. He
wrote even more than Scott, held to bp
an especially voluminous writer, and
vet he is said to have destroyed more
verses between his twentieth and thlr-
tieth year than he ever published. His
time was entirely devoted to literature
and every hour had its appropriate and
select task. He began his life as a
violent revolntionist but the dramas
"Wat Tyler" aud "Joan Of Are" of
this period, are unworthy OF
their auth ". s'Thabala, the De-
stroyer," "a tale of Arabian enchant-
ment, and 'The Curse of Kehama" "a
story founded on Hindoo mythology,
are his greatest poetical productions.
Southey was educated at Westminster,
but he lies buried near keswick, In the
Lake Country, according to his own
wish. Below is bust of another Lake
Poet, Samuel Taylor ColeridSe, pre-
sented to the Abbey by an A@rican
citizen and unveiled by DR.. james Rus
sci Lowell, while minister to the court
of st. James, in 1885. Coleridge was
a deep thinker as shown by his aids
to Reflection" a book which will repay
careful perusal. As poet he is
most generally known as the author OF
s.The Rhine of the Ancient Mariner a
wild, maiestical narrative possessing a
melody strange and unearthly. His
code to Mount Blanc is one of the
sublimest productions of its kind IN
our language. ''Kubla Khan" writ
ten during the inspiration of dream,
is fragment which shows the genius
OF the man with the widest flights of
the Imagination superinduced by OPP
ium, to which Coleridge was addicted
for many years. And now We stand at
the foot OF the poet Of all time, all ma
tiors, the myriad minded William
Shakespeare. He was born in 1864
and died in 1916. OF his early educa-
ton as little is known as of Homer. He
came to London at the age of % and
was first an actor then an author. In
the realm Of poetry he has no equal.
Happy the people who can point to
him as their own, for his works have
become boon to the whole human
family. The monument both in de-
sign and finish is exceedingly elegant.
The figure of Shakespeare, bis attitude,
his dress, his genteel air, his fine com
posure, all so delicately expressed by
the sculptor, cannot be too greatly ad-
mired and these beautiful lines from
'The Tempest are happily chosen:
The cloud-cappe,i towers, the gorgeons palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve.
And, like the baseess fabric of a vision,
Leave not wreck behini.''
The figure of the poet is placed on a
pedestal resembling an actor with the
right arm leaning on apple Of his books
while the left holds scroll bearing the
letters of his chief writings. On the
pedestal are also the heads af Queen
Elizabeth, Richard III. and Henry '.
Shakespeare's remains are buried at
Stratford-on-Avon. Shortly alter his
death there was much talk ofremoving
the body to the Abbey, but the lines
'cursed be he who moves my bones,
is said to have caused al abandonment
of the project. The monument was
erected at great cost by populor sub
scription in 1740. Next to Shakes
peare's tomb is a bust of "Bobbie'
Burns. It was erected in 1885, elgh-
ty.nine years after the poets death.
This memorial is the work of Il Scott.
ISL artist and was paid for in shilling
subscriptions. As the author of many
beautiful songs familiar to all, such AZ
"Auld Lang Lyme" "The Banks o
Doom" and his stirring ''Scots wha
haze wi VILLAGE bled," Burns probably
has among his admirers more people
who care little for poetry than any
other poet. What sad comentary or
genius when we reflect that Burns
went to an untimely grave at the age
of 81 overcome by the fiend oil lntem,
perance. The author of 1.-The Sea
sons" James Thomson, has statue tC
his memory On which the subjects OF
his greatest poem are represented on
the pedestal in bas- relief, the expenses
being governed by a subscription edl'
ton of his works. Thompson stands
next to Cowper as descriptive poet
and DR.. johnson was not loath tc
sound his praise. His ''Castle of In
dolence" is an allegorical poem in the
style and manner of Spenser butt adj
ded nothing to his merits as poet
The noblest and most affecting
tribute to his memory is from the pen
of Collins, whose beautiful elegy be-
gins:
sin wonder grave druid lies.
Where slowly winds the stealing
The wears best fruits shall dutiouS rise,
TO deck its poets sylvan grave.
Remembia rance oft shall haunt the shore,
When Thames in summer wreathes Is drest,
And oft suspend the dripping oar,
To bid his gentle spirit rest.
A bust to his memory is all that keep;
alive the name of Nicolas Rowe who
was Poet Laureate during part O
both the reigns ofQueen Anne and the
first George. His principal works are
translation of Lucan's 'Pharsalia,
which was propular IN It's day, ant