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...change of poetic tone which takes place at the beginning of this part of the Divine Comedy is no less marked than is the change of sentiment. The harsh, rough rhymes, fitted to the picture of Hell, give way to sweeter, gentler cadences, and the poem begins to have more light and happiness...
...play of Hamlet is unceasingly attractive in its human and dramatic power. Throughout the tragedy there is an artful blending of realism with high poetic skill. The drawing of the characters is definite, keen, and very impressive...
...Harvard Memorial Biographies' the story of the generous lives of our fellows dead in the war is told with pathetic and tender simplicity. Every page is inspiring. I read a few lines written by one of my own dear college friends, Peter Porter, sweet, high-minded, poetic, humorous, lovable comrade, scholar and gentleman. He was colonel of a New York regiment; he fell leading a charge at Cold Harbor. Before going to the war he made his will, and the words with which he began it seem to me sincerely characteristic of the spirit of modest self-conservation which...
From Aldrich Mr. Copeland passed to William Watson, who was a master of criticism, and who drew his inspiration, or rather his form, for he had little inspiration, from the eighteenth century writers. His "Wordsworth's Grave" is a masterpiece of poetical criticism. Watson was not the most poetical of poets. He had poetical reflection, but little poetic infusion. He often tried to be witty, but has had little success as a humorist...
Both Tennyson and Browning, Mr. Copeland said, have done more than express the feeling of the moment. They have expressed the poetic feeling of the second half of the nineteenth century, just as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Coleridge have done for the first half. From a standpoint of substance, rather than of form, Tennyson and Browning stand at opposite poles. Tennyson represents the spirit of science and law, while Browning represents the individual having his own way in spite of the law. In neither of them can we find the observation of nature and sympathy with it that Wordsworth...