Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-02-19
UNHONORED AT HOME
LIST OF THE GREAT UNAPPREci-
ATED BY CoUNTRYMEN.
America Has Had Many, Even In Re~
cent Years-Germany's Ingrati-
tude to Those Who Made Her
immortal in Literature.

Poe was chiefly drunkard to his.
contemporaries the gentle Emerson
our one great philosopher, was abused
for his candor; Walt Whitman was
| howled down, and our one genius as a
painter, Whistler, lived abroad his life
long. Thoreau was considered as no
great Shakes" and Henry James Isl
a dweller under foreign tents.
Germany, too, has little list:
Goethe, who was early damned an i'm
moral and an epicurean when his
land was occupied by Napoleon (the
Little Corporal knew better; Wolfe I'm
homme!" he exclaimed). Heine dled9
in exile as IN. Henri Heine, poete ct
raconteur," at Paris. Schopenhauer
and Nietzsche abused their NATIVES
country in language that still glitters
with irony and hatred. Richard Wag-
ner had no reason to love Germany,
and there is Beethoven, who lived and
died in Vienna; Handel, an English
man by adoption; Schumann, and
many others, who suffered from neg
lect. In our own days Richard Strauss
and Arnold Schoenberg are victims.
| In France the number of disconcerts,
| Rabelais, Pascal, Rousseau (Montaigne
was too sensible, Voltaire too pugna-
cious to be crushed), Victor Hugo
Baudelaire, Flaubert (the two last
named were publicly prosecuted for
obscene" ings-stupendous) Ber-
lioz (adjudged a madman), Balzac,t
Pasteur, Verlaine, Manet, Monet-howt
many more? Mind you, I don't say
that these men were all model citizens;
but they were men of genius (ClaudeI
Monet still lives, honored in his old
age), and were prosecuted, Edouard
Manet as bitterly as was Richard Wag-
ner.
Italy: Dante, august name, mighty
poet, SOLITARY PAGER of the shore;"
Tasso, Columbus, Calico, Leopard,
Carducci Even little Holland allowed
Rembrandt, Vermeer and SpinoZa to-
die obscurely. Ireland among others
can show James Clarence Mangan--
now don't say, "it's pity he drank!"
and John M. Synge. Scotland has
England is first in the field as the
mother of poets: Milton, Blake, Shell
ley, Keats, Byron, Browning, Shell
burne, Meredith, Lander and Harvey,
Darwin, De Foe, Bunyan could all tell
tales Of neglect, contumely, even
worse.
Spain scorned her greatest writer,
y 1,
denborg, her gifted Strindberg. Ibseny
like Dante, lived in exile, solitary and
abused by the world. Lenan of Hun
gary died mad.
Russia was not too gentle in her
handling of Dostoievsky-who was
shipped to Siberia ten years ago. Toll
stoy was hated by the throne. Tur-
genev was self-exiled, but OCCASION
ally was imprisoned on his country
estate by the authorities. PolandS
bard, Adam Mickiewicz, fed to Paris;l
even the spiritual Chopin, psychically
brave, as his music proves, left War
saw forever for Paris.
This list might easily be heightened.
I avoid mention of Socrates, Jesus
Christ, Mahomet, Moses, Maimonidess
Luther, Loyola and Savonarola, be-
cause they are victims to the worst
passions of mankind-the passion
aroused by theological odium. Such
serene souls as Shakespeare, Da Vinci,
Velasquez, Montaigne, never became
embroiled in politics or religious rows.
If you are ever assailed with any OF
the great names, simply reply with the
question:: How were they treated
during their lifetime by their fellow
countrymen?" -Puck.