The Function of the Poet And Other Essays
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The writer who appeals to more peculiar inoods of mind, to more complex or more esoteric motives of emotion, may be a greater favorite with the few; but he whose verse is in sympathy with moods that are human and not personal, with emo- tions that do not belong to periods in the develop- ment of individual minds, but to all men in all years, wins the gratitude and love of whoever can read the language which he makes musical with solace and aspiration. The present volume, while it will confirm M...r. Longfellow's claim to the high rank he has won among lyric poets, deserves attention also as proving him to possess that faculty of epic narration which is rarer than all others in the nineteenth century. In our love of stimulants, and our numbness of taste, which craves the red pepper of a biting vocabulary, we of the present generation are apt to overlook this al- most obsolete and unobtrusive quaUty; but we doubt / if, since Chaucer, we have had an example of more I purely objective narrative than in "The Courtship of Miles Standish." Apart from its intrinsic beauty, this [ 122 ] LONGFELLOW gives the poem a claim to higher and more thought- ful consideration; and we feel sure that posterity will confirm the verdict of the present in regard to a poet whose reputation is due to no fleeting fancy, but to an instinctive recognition by the pubHc of that which charms now and charms always, — true power and originality, without grimace and distortion; for Apollo, and not Milo, is the artistic type of strength.
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The writer who appeals to more peculiar inoods of mind, to more complex or more esoteric motives of emotion, may be a greater favorite with the few; but he whose verse is in sympathy with moods that are human and not personal, with emo- tions that do not belong to periods in the develop- ment of individual minds, but to all men in all years, wins the gratitude and love of whoever can read the language which he makes musical with solace and aspiration. The present volume, while it will confirm M...r. Longfellow's claim to the high rank he has won among lyric poets, deserves attention also as proving him to possess that faculty of epic narration which is rarer than all others in the nineteenth century. In our love of stimulants, and our numbness of taste, which craves the red pepper of a biting vocabulary, we of the present generation are apt to overlook this al- most obsolete and unobtrusive quaUty; but we doubt / if, since Chaucer, we have had an example of more I purely objective narrative than in "The Courtship of Miles Standish." Apart from its intrinsic beauty, this [ 122 ] LONGFELLOW gives the poem a claim to higher and more thought- ful consideration; and we feel sure that posterity will confirm the verdict of the present in regard to a poet whose reputation is due to no fleeting fancy, but to an instinctive recognition by the pubHc of that which charms now and charms always, — true power and originality, without grimace and distortion; for Apollo, and not Milo, is the artistic type of strength.
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