A Short History of American Literature : Based Upon the Cambrdige History of American Literature
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He therefore could not see the impossibility of trying to reduce to one rule all the innumerable individual senses of rhythm. Not only no two poets but no two readers would exactly coincide in their sense of rhythm. Lanier was on the right road. He merely made the mistake of taking his own\ sense of rhjrthm for a universal law. . Of his other prose writings the letters are the most im- portant. They reveal the man with unusual ftdlness — the pulsating sea of emotion in which he lived, his exube...rance, his passionate love of music, his wavering literary ambition, his buoyancy and htimour and occasional despondency, together with his intellectual interests and preferences. Few letters writ- ten in America are more interesting. Yet on first dipping into them one is repelled by the same qualities which frequently give one pause in his other writings. The style seems highly artificial, fanciful in its imagery, strained and rhetorical in its phrasing, bookish and precious in its diction. Even in his last years he was rarely simple and direct, for he had from boyhood so steeped himself in the older writers of our tongue, Shakes- 296 Chapters of American Literature peare in particular, that a plain and natural way of putting things would have seemed to him insipid, inane, and inartistic.
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