The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-26
OUTEIERlN POETRY
NOE ALL MEDIOCRE
ne North TO Claim Edgar Allen
4. Poe
IsIlEs, fIAYNE AND TTMRoD
es's Genisus Was Unlimited,
Olandad BY No Time Or Place
anS Ruled World
aninore sun.

atimore Sun.
A literary critic has said that
tlsong Southern Poets there Is O
I'd level or nlediocrity, from which
one name sthat Of Poe1 may.
c 81 not for even the most enthusS
itic afmiEafa or pos nf the south
claim for them preeminsnee Z In
81 This would be as Idle az TO
.-l--.lE.As 2nr all the spnatnRfara OF New
gIand tins Tuiiness or inc sift OF
hgfel1ow for all the fhymesters of
gland the genius OF Tennyson. We
may, however. whether we are .oi
nth, east, west or south. yield to
,faF NATIVE poets, love and admiration.
THIS given, q critical examination OF
tie qualities Of poetical excellence is
ms to disparage but to grade in our re-
Cards the objects OF our affection. BY
iEq comparison OF our poets with those
0SIn In the large scale OF universal
ef lOther people we may estimate our
V&lnes The correctness -Of this val
lltion is not to be ascertained except
'ttsrpugh the meeting of many minds.
u is interesting TO examine the es-
nate put upon some OF the Southern
% 20 by critics who are not in entire
npRthy because OF the birth or in
eliilRtion, with the south. The detail
az such an examination would be here
,tediOns. The general result can how
eSar, be briefly here stated. In. @
'rfqrious article We have spoken OF u
Aoet OF singers whose voices have
sung clear and true, nut we will now
Hne1k or men whose voice has won a
moro widespread recognition than
fKfI7aE ffalinyFytf q. TftRak |
Ttfahds Edgar Allen Poe (of whom,
9th Lanier,. we shall speak In a fu-
tiita article). or Poe, Barrett Wen
d6Ii, IN his recently Published Liter
df& History OF America" says:
10 turn only to the biliography In
ta last yoiume OF Stedman & Wood
Btfy's admirable edition OF Poe, Il
a9hears that btween 1890 and 1895,
fleee were at least ten translations
cG hls works In the foreign languages
bong others Swedish, Italia n, Dam
tug aiSd South American Spanish.
&c tasnly among the literary classes
Qf Europe no American author has ere.
more attention than Poe, whose
ieflce Etill. seems extending" This
M the distinguished professor OF
l slish at Harvard college but voices
ele sentiment OF most critics and at i
Est lifts one poet above the dead le-
vel Of mediocrity.
~ the later years with the forget
lllesa OF personality In the rising
stneas Sthat surrounds the name
q Roes there has arisen the claim that
kQa was not OF the so6th, and today
plla opinion hnds expression In the
tement that Poe must rightly be
5ldered of New York. This asser-
81 Will not however, receive the as
e'ss Of many Southerners. Poe's ge-
however, was not unlimited; II
truth seemed bounded by no time
place: IL ruled h world of It's own,
PAS king In the room OF imagihh-
be maine OF Sydney Lanier Is gath.
81 Elory with the rolling years. and
q iag az 6ls a llSien 81 .Nes as, ~.
Sion of his poeticaI genius ls stud
And today. by one Of the most
ieal SO Well as one of the most
tssllieiRl 6f northern cities 1t Is aaid
The most gifted of Southern
02ess Sgsiasy I.apier." This ess
lEII1E q. Euf5 sEDIIuULnrU1e rus, fJsF. IIIit,
flfa eEiiS35 does not class Poe as 4
its5ss. = a re works cf IasnIe.s.
fesle more ffeQuansiv III demand
ingee Nf Sely read than nc tinSS pre-.
a. lias
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