The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-28

the equal Of Wordsworth. and assert
Cd or this glorious pair, ana please mark
it that when the year 1900 i turned.
and the (fEnglishj nation come. 70 re-
count her poetic glories in the century
which had just then ended The frst
names with her VIII be the~e-the great
names OF William Wordsworth and George
Gordon Byron.
Reviewing "Childe Harold Pilgrl1'
age"-the last two Canto-. 20 greatly -ure-
rior to Cantos. First and Second. Tame
breaks I into fervd praise saving tHat
Wordsworth. Walter scott. by the -lde
Of this prodigality Of accumulated >rlen-
doris" seemed poor and gloomy never
since Aeschylus was seen 80 tragic a
pomp: and men followed. with a sort OF
pang, the tram Of gigantic fgurc>. whom
he brought in mournful rank. before our
eyes from the past Again copying TX
stanzas particularly, after copying several
others, the illustrious French critic says.
Has ever style better expressed d soul9
1t Is seen here laboring and expanding.
Long and stormingly the ideas boiled hike
metal heaped in the furnace. They melted
there before the strain of the intense
trial; they mingled there in their lava
amidst shocks and explosions, and then
at last the door Is opened z dull stream
OF fire descendS into the trough prepared
beforehand, heating the circumambIent
air, and its ,glittering hues scorch the
eyes which persist in booking upon Il"
once more, let Tame be heard 'DesolIp-
ton and m~onotOgue did not suffice Byron.
and he needed to express his ideal. events
and actions. Only events put to proof
the force and spring OF the soul: Only ac-
lions manifest and measure this force ard
spring. Amidst went he sought for the
most powerful, amidst Others the
strongest His long array OF poems be
ginning with The Bride Of Abydoe' and
ending with '"The Prisoner of Chillon,"
illustrate this analysis. He insists that
Byron IS genuine, a very great poet, and
that through his swiftly moving. animated
poems truth flows in all. No. this man
Is rot an arIanger of effects or an IN
ventor of phrases. He has lived amidst
the spectacles he describes; he has ex-
perienccd the emotions lie relates. He
has been a score of times near death.-
in the Morea. in the anguish ard solitude
of fever; at Dull, in a shipwrcck: at
Malta. in England. and in italy. in the
dangers Of the duel, plots OF instruction,
commencement OF sudden attacks. at sea,
Il ID LIZ OIl AOASSGIOh, having seen d>Sdo
9inatlon, wounds agonies close TO him,
and that more than once You should
read Tom MOore's long ana most interest
ing Life Of Byron. You Viii find this given
from the great poet: Il an living here
exposed to assassination daily, for / have
happened to make a powerful and IN
principled man my enemy; and l never
sleep the worse fer 1t, or ride III less soil
tary places, because ~prccauUion Is useless,
and one thinks Of It as Of a disease which
may or may not strike" II YOU Would
see the splendid courage OF the man see
him as Moore gives it near the Gulf of
San Florence, IN a terrific sea. his yacht
thrown on the shore. 1t is too long tc
quote but is most interesting. Byron was
a great observer and a most gifted de-
scriber. See Prisoner of Chillon,' and
an hundred other places. Tame calls
Manfred" the ''tWin-brother Of the
greatest poem Of the age. Gocthe's Faust
The critic surveying the two poems, IS