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From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears...
The Saxon does not seem to have ever been very good at acquiring languages. The number of words derived from the Celtic which are preserved in English is perhaps not greater than those which (like hominy, quahaug, pogie, tauttog, and a few others) our American English has caught from the...
Any German with penetration and tact in matters of literary criticism will own that the principle deficiency of German poetry is in style; that for style, in the highest sense, it shows but little feeling. Take the eminent masters of style, the poets who best give the idea of what...
Especially is criticism a comparative science demanding the contemporaneous presence in the memory of many conclusions arrived at through much mistake, much change of opinions adopted on a too narrow basis of facts for a true induction. Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that...
Nothing can be better in its way than the style in which Goethe there presents his thought, but it is the style of prose as much as of poetry; it is lucid, harmonious, earnest, eloquent, but it has not received that peculiar kneading, heightening, and recasting which is observable in...