The Relation of the Poet to His Age a Discourse Delivered Before the Phi Beta K
The Relation of the Poet to His Age a Discourse Delivered Before the Phi Beta K
George Stillman Hillard
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" said Bonaparte to Bourrienne, " the thing is vague and unmeaning. Men and passions are the sub- jects to write about. Here is something to study. " It betrays rather a poverty of invention to have per- petual recourse to foreign names, distant epochs, and remote places, to awaken interest. There is as good poetry in Middlesex, as in Italy or Cash- mere, if we only knew where to look for it ; and he, whose heart is cold on the banks of die Merrimac, will not find it growing warm on those of th...e Tiber. An opinion essentially similar to that which I have ventured to (luestion, has been expressed by a distinguished living poet, in his lines to the Rainbow : 38 When science from creation's face, Enchantment's veil withdraws, "What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws. Presumptuous as it may seem to differ from the author of O'Connor's Child, upon the principles of his own art, I make bold to take issue with him both upon the general position and the particular illustration.
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