Old Friends; Being Literally Recollections of Other Days

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Moore formd poetic stimulant in looking at the sunset. Wordsworth, keenly susceptible to every influence of physical Nature, walked alone, in the lonely, beautiful Cumberland country, composing his verses, often speaking them aloud, and committing them to memory as he composed them. Burns, appar- ently the most sweetly natural singer since Shakespeare (as long ago was said by William Pitt), himself testified that the influence that most exalted and enraptured him was that of a stormy wind howli...ng among the trees and raging over the plain, and that whenever he wanted to be " more than ordinary in song " he put himself " on a regimen of admiring a fine woman." Rich- ard Henry Stoddard, — whose " Songs of Simi- mer " comprise some of the loveliest and some of.
156 OLD FRIENDS apparently, the most spontaneous lyrics existent in the English language, — ^told me that sometimes he wrote the first draft of a poem in prose, and afterward turned it into verse. Edmund Clar- ence Stedman, whose poetic achievement made his name illustrious in American hterature, told me that it was his custom to select with care the particular form of verse that he designed to use, and sometimes to invent the rhymes and write them at the ends of the lines which they were to terminate, — ^thus making a skeleton of a poem, as a ground-work on which to build.


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