The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-25
I3@ THE WOMAN POETS
GowES LECTURES on An
urEREsTIsC SUBJECT.
.es five women Who Have
..~-rea In Literature In the Last
..~<v Years-BrowBtag, Eliot,
.sees, Ressetti and Ingetow.

- v.nsn Posfs of the Last sixty
- s,ss tbs subject OF Rev. H. II.
800. ALE ard interesting lecture ~
s.ss~. NJ ias. Right
:. --~ezsx ssse s-e0Gd lecture Of the pres
= 800 NJ. Gowsn remarked on the
e.Isss.af sksars taken By women in the
.lIsssse.4n,s Of the lags sixty years. TnA
-. g ~ sos.ezss OF art, scsence. pnisoso-
~ "a pfssaaatnrgDy, nas been pre-erutn.
- s,s,s 10 poetry. Til tbs present cen
- - r1nsz was me Indirect inspiration
~ = - y..ssr tran herss.f the Anger. AZ
- ansUsrsd f'esrareh. Rsa iF4ce Dante,
81 fI1neyrs ATss~sG. 70 womanhood gen
- xnrsptsG from :sase poets TIE ffio-
= = Ssng
~sanfrtfs where wosnanhocd had
.~urksnx sp.r;tsal1y ahead female singers
- wtss not unknown. Thus Israel
~ srsosrxd soEggtresseS such a. Miriam.
sses.n. Hannah and the Virgin Mary,
-. syrsns are cur heritage today.
- hss ths ansie name OF Sappho. The
S-1<ruvusss ehasss. sweetiy smiling
$50 Beyond these the women poets
~ - and far between. France has 4
80 a Brittany. Italy yittoria Colon
= q otherwise the wonnaDhocd OF Eur
- nrssess sentusy has, sowever. with
= ss{ea.ng hapw made the whole world
=. Win sofsg, and tnere have been dur
- - last few years AZ least twenty xo-
= vh0se Inspiration ~ as strong and
esvsa Anish as perfect as those of any
q ,k<sr predecessors since the time OF Sap
iher mentioning a number OF these the
xee.rty announced his selection Of five an
sssualias different types Of poetry. These
rabSxh Barrett Browning. 1sos-lssi. the
= x GaKsFing and Its meaning
oeofge EsIcf 1879 $50. the poet OF caAr-
Is.s.s1s Anne Proctor. Isas-issa. the poet
rsrssisa Ra~etsi isso-issa. the poet Of
- ssa,. Of mysticism.
Ian fnssIew. 1880 1897. the poet OF SYM
psAy wsh nature.
~ s<cturer then took these III, In detail.
2sEr = rapld sketch OF the nfe Of each
rss, With DESCRIPTION and critical essi-
esss Of the chief poems. illustrating in
szsry eaxe b. aopious quotation. Aurora
txjrsa vas described as Mrs Broxnlng's
utxsxsf Effort. ard IN -pste OF many tech
~: sSsscis ar palpahie improhabIlisiss
4 pitt very noble poem. revealing the
tsiAx's highss; convictions on life and
zseukA less naturally a poet than Mrs.
nyBatnR. George Eliot was given a very
~ yAce among the poets of the century.
uaR spanish Gypsy" described as per-
~ - very greatest poem a woman ever
u5m George Laiot's intellectual life IL
'snsln the aEe-iong conflict between He-
stlm an& HelieniEm. between the ethical
sS6 ~ etEetsc, the sins~wrsashea goa''
~ Ger fronting the pierced image with
- sfcWn af tSarns- so far as her writing
~ sonrrBed. the ethical won the victory
sas y almost every poem the keynote Is
ny. - In '.StradlyarIus'' the lesson is
e4eseA:
'sy sssn God Himself can make mans
sEaaus hes. mrn TO help Him"
ne Paradise Of Life IL described in The
Aar fnyisisie' as the becoming .'ths
|ases presence Of good dlfsusesi and
k .sss.as sser more intense" ana IN the
10 Afs enforced in a noble drama
ITO the Sentinel
= hour 10 regal when he mounts OF
ADELAIDE Proctor the pendulum
Max1 Back again 20 feeling and We have
~ eurAs OF song. song moreover taught
Mow. such "a an American critic de-
~ remind as % The telling Of beads.
ADMINISTRATION Of her manner tina poem
1Ntaie was quoted
anana RoEsetti, one OF tbs four gifted
IN or the Italian patriot who found
80 n England. Was described as one
-. $50 rputasion WAS growing daily With
~ feetis feeling and a mueh higher ar
&c anish than Ars. Browning. II II pos
- snSt future generations mag sea IN
&c greatest poet OF she two. Amer
81 was rscited 10 ilits.rats her stsia.
Ass 20 be considered Was Jean In
~ Poet OF the nature school. with
sNswerfh. Shelley and 'rennyson. A de-
) ass1oa 81 her early life was given. show
Be intimate communication with ma
- aaa the lecturer concluded HE ae-
49, 81 her by quoting her High Tide
"a Coast OF Lincolnshire
ans hfxt lecture If The course was an
ssessd as an account az Edmund Sean-
- kse&i work. THE FaeTsa Queeae,"