The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-23

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Oct OF VIRGINIA. by f. v. NJ.
~ tier, a.. nj. -. H. b. r.. john
fd Company, Of Richmond, pub
iluers. PIP. 82s.
Tie advent OF the year 1907 has
pttsea revival that means much TO
no lgfer of Southern literature and
oeif DR. Painters book is probably
be III anthology In which Virginia
er8e-a akers have obtained favorable
ea9gnitlon. Certainly II is by far the
allies and completeAt record Of its
5tad sing such. 1t is "A fortunate mat
- ma the volume owes It's authorship,
3 . grginian and Its publication to
% ptA.rprising Richmond firm.
\ peltinent series OF sentences in the
.Gtbbr preface run thus.
lthe stream OF poetry. since the
rs az the redoubtablc Captain John
imithl has never run entirely dry in
The poetic impulse has
ittndii followed the development OF
y state and reflected It's physical
its growing intelligence and
a1i tlcal History. This fact gives
npEa al Importance to the present
'qitti for 1t is not simply record
inlttidual verse-writers, but In
4rf least, culture history Of tho
3a satment the author has pursued
I'll ufological order which has been
!Nft W the date of publication OF the
" We volumes of Verse. Upon the
Nh3i his has seemed tn. most salts
~ arrangement. though In several
II posthumous publications 1t
,cssitated the transfer OF the
I'm his proper place. The facts
nreserted in the Introduction to each
1eriud Yill, 1t fs hoped, throw more
}e iesa light on the distinctive char
ae9t Its poetry"
9@ing out his idea, DR.. Painter
2tqpg how the first Virginia colo
% wrote. had their imagination
stit ed with the splendor OF the
s3iIat nan, period, so that even &c
a}es d SO eenterprising d pioneer as
let NTH did not disdain to EN-
5Foidp HIS pungent prose with the
ilpwes Of poetry in writing the nara
s.9e VI ais adventures as u resident oil
siist ittinia plantation. The snatch OF
Fersa 4 which Smith describes HIS
stAtt mind when re remained
among he Indians after his rescue bS
I ,pgailuDtas. and later poem OF his
9dduteG to make good the claim of The
deughty warrior to the right of being
eaited poet, and a more versatile
HRuiWs than history has hitherto ad
.ultted i'm to be.
Aaot ar first Colonial poet Is r
{stct, 10 DIR. Painter tells the reader
p9big d in 1910. "a Ballad Of yir
gSNiA an epic celebrating the arrIva
q homas Gates and Captain New
port Jamestown. a. number OF tn,
EWe Jour stanzas OF the poem ar,
fuhl d and are most interesting
~ ition Is made OF George Sandys
wha md time in the midst OF hi
5dniia ration OF affairs as treasure
~ colony. and originator OF TIN
tlIst ter-mill, iron-works and ship
Z AZ Ne the New World. to continue Iii
fHfsl lon of the "Metanorphoses o
i1Fi9 which he afterward publIsile,
q AdYntage in England.
uE ainter quotes at length fron
Goes entitled "Bacon's Epitaph
aae y His Man." found among TIL
}Rgy Papers" which contain
$gti cription of "Bacon's Rebetlio
III mia" The name of the au.llo
~ sis poem is not given, but II /
tiDlqIa, for in II expression lis frs
.sjegu o distinctiyely national an
sIatGiati3 sentiment and to a yirgint
5dca $ disassociated from that O
t her country.
tiif worthy examples culled fror
.r period of the Revolution in
pe hose associated with the name
odoric Bland, James mcclure
rote The Bellies OF Williams
st. Georges Tucker. John Burl
= N and drafnatist; Colonel Rob
ri a nford. dramatist and poet, an
tRilii8i Munford. his son. the famou
..raasls tor of Homers Illiad; Maso
Ne ms. Mrs. Ritson, the author q
IL "RG tical Pictpre'; Judith Iona.
y9h6 oked poetic music in The Note
sH - American Lyre." and Richar
l3aOnay. of Louisa county, Va, VIII
.@FpIa original and translated poems.
Pass ng from the.period of the RevC
Iutiup % that OF lsI5-lS61, DIR. Painte
sppL;l the story Of his hook wit
EXTRACTS drawn from such Virglni
poats rs William Maxwell. OF Nor
i9lk, ne founder of the Virginia His
forfeit Register: Mrs. Martha An
ftnvls Of Petersburg; William Branch
az, ~ Prince Edward county, Va
Rern ! NJ. Carter, whose book {
poems published in London In 1872
coat ed one entitled ..Pocahontas
I3irae, Haines, editor and proprietor {
the American Constitution. publlshe
in Petersburg, Va; Attorney Genera
John Robertson, poet and tragedia1
Mrs. Littleford, OF Richmond, who's
Volume of poems was favorably crit
cised by Chief Justice John Marshal
Edgar Allan Poe. of whom DR.. Painte
says: lie belongs to the nation rathe
than to the State 10 this proud pos
ton he is raised alike by his int
slcctual briiliancy. the number and g,
4cellence of his works, and the vnrie
scenes of his literary labors."
Frederick Specie. OF Campbell cou,
ty. comes next in order Then Thorn.
u. Semmes, who wrote what d
Painter characterized as .'the fir
poetical fruitage Of the University
Virginia; afterward. Robert f. Astro
sos Brunswick. Va; Samuel NJ, jaime
OF Loudoun county, Va. John ]
Mitchell. OF Shepherdstown, Va, col
corning whom DR., Painter mentions
review published in the Southern Ii
porary Messenger of May. 1880. that a
firms Dr. Mitchell's volume of yer