The Literature of the Victorian Era
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He is a poet who, though he is fundamentally intellectual, all too frequently yields to the charm of melodious words.
For the purpose of " placing " a poet there is nothing more useful than Matthew Arnold's well-known test of comparison with lines of supreme beauty. Applied to Swinburne this test yields remarkable results. Notwithstanding the classical element in him, no one can doubt that he is a poet of the romantic school. It is therefore proper to compare him with other romantic poets, and,... by preference, with the masters of romance in the nineteenth century. As specimens of their work, Arnold might have chosen such lines as Coleridge's " For he on honey-dew hath fed.
And drunk the milk of Paradise," and Keats's "Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." For verse such as this the ordinary terms of panegyric are in- adequate. It partakes of the magic of the faery casements and of the land where the food is honey-dew. Only very great poets have the secret of it, and even they only in moments of the highest inspiratioii.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He is a poet who, though he is fundamentally intellectual, all too frequently yields to the charm of melodious words.
For the purpose of " placing " a poet there is nothing more useful than Matthew Arnold's well-known test of comparison with lines of supreme beauty. Applied to Swinburne this test yields remarkable results. Notwithstanding the classical element in him, no one can doubt that he is a poet of the romantic school. It is therefore proper to compare him with other romantic poets, and,... by preference, with the masters of romance in the nineteenth century. As specimens of their work, Arnold might have chosen such lines as Coleridge's " For he on honey-dew hath fed.
And drunk the milk of Paradise," and Keats's "Magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn." For verse such as this the ordinary terms of panegyric are in- adequate. It partakes of the magic of the faery casements and of the land where the food is honey-dew. Only very great poets have the secret of it, and even they only in moments of the highest inspiratioii.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939 to read onlineMoreLess
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