The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-10
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Ie"ocr wiz oefih " suspeeV ae TINS point tnat
MT oConhor, out OF MS own aoundant supply
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auanty' inoro 70 .o"soh 10 oene'o mat mose
persons seeing whitman "ouiu nave peer im-
presseu y! MN sonne"hat loss tremendously
tnan TINS. "nen ne USED 10 read rom MS poems
OF aeiiVer addresses IN puono oocesioneiiy ms
audiences were nearly alweyss small ana almost
ihVariaoiy quiet AUS nafo ior one OF moderate
recepu'lues 10 unoerotano now ne coulo
nave appeared as ne oid 10 Mr. oconnor.
We wonder II Mr.. oConnor ever heard
the late william cullen Bryant read an after
dinner ADDRESS rom hrentno Fose PROOF sheets.
Inc autnor OF Ihanatopsis was q very capa-
Die poet ana MS addresses were CONSCIENTIOUS
and admirable, but we do not believe that any
body possessed OF q less intense subJectivity
than Mr.. oConnors could haVe got anything
like q genuinely dramatic impression out OF
them. That Mr.. Whitman's audiences should
have conducted themselves precisely as those
OF Mr.. Bryant did. and should have given no
visible evidence Of emotion. seems to MS to DO .
circumstance frauSht with interesting susges-
ton; and, as we say, we wonder whether Mr..
OConnor ever heard Mr.. Bryant, and. II he did,
whether he wrote about him.
Mr.. OConnor goes on to report the message
that the -" good gray poet had to deliver on the
occasion when he came in dressed In q long.
dark overcoat. much worn" and clothed with
Inspiration as with q dazzling aureole." In the
words Of Mr.. o'Connor: Love- said the gray
redeemer. lifting his clear face, bright with
deathless smiling and wet with the sweet
waters Of immortal tears, love, Lowell That in
cludes all. There IL nothing in the world but
that-nothing at all In the world. Better than
all Is love. Love Is better than ALL"
Mr.. OConnor breaks OF here. There Ia nc
more from him In the Introduction. We should
like to know how he sustained this utterance Of
the poet. Tho author Of the Introduction
characterfzes him rs man well worth know
Ing for his own sake, q man of genius, an OBJ
server. a thinker, and a powerful writer. " but II
is not recorded here what cataclysmio thing
happened to him as a consequence Of
the poets observation. The inference OF one
not subjected to the actual scene and i'm
preston. or, being subjected to II, mol
having the receptive and interpretive powers o.
MIR. oConnor, Is that there was no particular
need OF an aureole, representing the apparel Of
inspiration, to celebrate a remark OF the sort
other philosophers esteemed to DO as earnest
and as profound as whitman have consid
cred mat LIE was something else. kar
Marx conversing with John swinton In apubhc
house window overlooking the teemfng sand
at Margate, characterlzedlt asa " struggle, ant
shakespeare called II O Fever. IL Is safe u
say that the ordinary Sooourner here doe
not feel himself overwhelmed with the I'm
preston that IoVe is AL. he knows very wei
thai he has to pay taxes for the police and tina
law case TO recover money costs him from II
10 zoo per cont OF the amount involved. TIL
Is not love; this as Kari MARX says, Is struggle
course, q poot ID not heid TO the strict letter
his snAncl- III he were he would have to la care