New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
THERE WERE LITERARY REvOLTs no
TINE TO TIME-FOR WHICH THAyN

THERE WERE LITERARY REvOLTs mod
TINE TO TIME-FOR WHICH THAyE
The cry was raised against shakespen 4
he had disregarded the classic rules Of drsrs
writing He made his plays life By mixing s-''
and tragedy, fair and foul, verse and prose, u
ting them side by side. Has any one fergszl
that when Byron wrote "Childe Harold 4
rhymed heroics of Pope were the synonyn,
all poetry, as yet undisturbed by the res,tia I
William Cowper against that metrOncmit 81
a we'll as the innovations OF Wordsworth i
Coleridge? The truth is that the spirit Of r's
is too large and too powerful to be bottled =
any particular form or style, or in any parts
view Of life, manner Of subject or genius Of raI
ment. Poetry demands a free field, as vel
free verse. And the muses. will bic. VII =
SURFACES of mankind the eye that "s'
hearts secrets and the voice that sings Of FL
with sympathy.
Men turn to the great fountains OF sorf Il
bibles and the great masters, not necessary u
the hope of being lifted out Of the shit"
mortality, but with the feeling that soros
death democratized, shown to be the u'm'
lot of men, bring resignation and peace, l's
cause that touch which makes US all nn I'll
a cosmic Interpretation to life, 70 ~n'ea
mission may be made with certain no'&1
of feeling Though He STAY ne, yet VIII ~
Him. The words Of profoundest sorrow 81
language are these:
"We are such stuff nj.
As dreams are made on, and OUT h'''
Is rounded with a sleep"
And vet we are not afraid to read the"
They do not shock US. The infinite synPs"'
the mind that could take the whole OF ''s ~.
race in his arms and weep with Us ''.
mortality evokes love that will not leave
the dust, or deny US resurrection iroD
Shakespeare was no less poet Wheh
this than the Blessed Lord was poet VII"
"As a lamp sheltered from the VIVA
Thou shalt burn, aspiring 70 ns
One with Me. pure, passioniess'
Eternal Reality
Eternal Peace! Eternal Eestasy'
Or when Jesus said: 81 am the resurree.s
the life" Out OF these several interpfe"A
life springs all poetry that has oeen -
that will be written or fundamental mp
In other words, It is the sad oOu'' s,,
sadder denial which gives strictly hsI.
tone to creative work, as II we were s"
disregarded world, disregarded so To-
relationship 10 the mainland is eonee'sks
which moves through the inspiration o. 80.
and Shelley, who would create beings 70 "a
the Gods. Il is this or else it is the is's II
sees this life as one bead upon me scI
successive developments, or as p''' Il
pline for something larger. These pass n
of which humor and satire and hun's, Il
come on the one hand, or, on the otnef 80
Of which NAV come the Paradise OF JAW
rugged faith OF Browning, seem TO me m
whole field of poetry worthy the n'~ AL
comprehend all passions when eon.' S,,s |
selves with that depth in US, OF 'na' 49,. Il
which VIC are the little receptacle !, 4
Of stating it be preferred, when '. a, \
when rightly commanded As between
manists and the religionists have Nv ~
artistic grounds. But | am thinking 10 a
these words that they may be reso =, ,,.,tr|
girls who begin 70 reel the 81" As 81
gift, and to them | would say; he.r ~ II
open and the heart sensitive, and wfI' S;,s,s
see and what you feel, and be hare 4 u
says; that is, resist the eontanins',s .,,,l 4
falsities, whether in friendship or u "a. \
in all matters of worldliness, pfe',. \
atbletieism of the soul. For in the aH ~
preme vision which may come, you ..., "A