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Excerpt from Acanthia, Poems Original and Edited: With Translations From the Zohrab and Rustem of Firdusi and Other Oriental Sources, and Notes Illustrative, Critical, and Excursive
WE have analysed below in Note I at a much greater length than it deserves one of the silliest of human productions in the way Of poetry, Mr. Arnold''s Buried Life. Here we deal in parody with an elegy Of his on the great German poet Heine, called Heine''s Grave, which is perhaps the most barbarous and untruthful dirge ever uttered over a great poet''s grave, and is really a disgrace to English literature. Mr. Arnold''s eulogists are naturally of a diffe rent Opinion. Mr. Herbert Paul thinks ''heine''s Grave'' is a painfully morbid poem on a supremely dismal subject, it is true but he adds, after quoting at full length the famous description Of the genius of Britain as a Titanic She-stoker, If the thing is to be done at all, this is how it should be done. To term the life of one Of Germany''s three greatest poets a supremely dismal subject merely because it was mainly a tale of long suffering and injustice is worthy Of some Miss Mawworm doubled by a Lydia Languish. Professor Saintsbury, another eulogist of the great Mat, evidently thinks better of the poem than even Mr. Paul does, for he speaks Of it and the poem of Rugby Chapel as two fine but rhymeless dirges. In ''rugby Chapel'' the intensity of feeling is sufficient to carry Off the lack of lyrical accomplishment. This is a strange proposition for a critic to start, that intensity of feeling should be allowed to give a passport to poetic imbecility. On that principle even Mrs. Nickleby might write good poetry.
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WE have analysed below in Note I at a much greater length than it deserves one of the silliest of human productions in the way Of poetry, Mr. Arnold''s Buried Life. Here we deal in parody with an elegy Of his on the great German poet Heine, called Heine''s Grave, which is perhaps the most barbarous and untruthful dirge ever uttered over a great poet''s grave, and is really a disgrace to English literature. Mr. Arnold''s eulogists are naturally of a diffe rent Opinion. Mr. Herbert Paul thinks ''heine''s Grave'' is a painfully morbid poem on a supremely dismal subject, it is true but he adds, after quoting at full length the famous description Of the genius of Britain as a Titanic She-stoker, If the thing is to be done at all, this is how it should be done. To term the life of one Of Germany''s three greatest poets a supremely dismal subject merely because it was mainly a tale of long suffering and injustice is worthy Of some Miss Mawworm doubled by a Lydia Languish. Professor Saintsbury, another eulogist of the great Mat, evidently thinks better of the poem than even Mr. Paul does, for he speaks Of it and the poem of Rugby Chapel as two fine but rhymeless dirges. In ''rugby Chapel'' the intensity of feeling is sufficient to carry Off the lack of lyrical accomplishment. This is a strange proposition for a critic to start, that intensity of feeling should be allowed to give a passport to poetic imbecility. On that principle even Mrs. Nickleby might write good poetry.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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