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A great number of passages from his poetry are no doubt perfectly familiar to the mind and lips of the critic whom I have men- tioned, and perhaps a wide circle of American readers. But this is a very different thing from being matter of universal quotation, like the phrases of the legitimate poets.
ni EMMRSON 153 And, in truth, one of the legitimate poets, Emerson, in my opinion, is not. His poetry is interesting; it makes one think ; but it is not the^ poetry of one of the born poets. I say i...t of him with reluctance, al- though' I am sure that he would have said it of himself; but I say it with reluctance, because I dislike giving pain to his admirers, and be- cause all my own wish, too, is to say of him what is favourable. But I regard myself, not as speaking to please Emerson's admirers, not as speaking to please myself ; but rather> I repeat, as communing with Time and Nature concerning the produc- tions of this beautiful and rare spirit, and as resigning what of him is by 1 54 ; EMERSON ni their unalterable decree touched with caducity, in order the better to mark and secure that in him which is im- mortal, Milton says that poetry ought to be simple, sensuous, impassioned^ Well, Emerson's poetry is seldom either simple, or sensuous, or impassioned.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A great number of passages from his poetry are no doubt perfectly familiar to the mind and lips of the critic whom I have men- tioned, and perhaps a wide circle of American readers. But this is a very different thing from being matter of universal quotation, like the phrases of the legitimate poets.
ni EMMRSON 153 And, in truth, one of the legitimate poets, Emerson, in my opinion, is not. His poetry is interesting; it makes one think ; but it is not the^ poetry of one of the born poets. I say i...t of him with reluctance, al- though' I am sure that he would have said it of himself; but I say it with reluctance, because I dislike giving pain to his admirers, and be- cause all my own wish, too, is to say of him what is favourable. But I regard myself, not as speaking to please Emerson's admirers, not as speaking to please myself ; but rather> I repeat, as communing with Time and Nature concerning the produc- tions of this beautiful and rare spirit, and as resigning what of him is by 1 54 ; EMERSON ni their unalterable decree touched with caducity, in order the better to mark and secure that in him which is im- mortal, Milton says that poetry ought to be simple, sensuous, impassioned^ Well, Emerson's poetry is seldom either simple, or sensuous, or impassioned.
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