THESE TRIFLES are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while “going the rounds of the press.” I am naturally anxious that if what I have written is to circulate at all, it should circulate as I wrote it. In defence of [...]
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A BIOGRAPHIST of Berryer calls him “l’homme qui, dans ses description, demande le plus grande quantite possible d’ antithese,”– but that ever–recurring topic, the decline of the drama, seems to have consumed of late more of the material in question than would have sufficed for a dozen prime ministers– even admitting them to be French. [...]
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By Nathaniel Hawthorne. James Munroe & Co.: Boston
WE HAVE always regarded the Tale (using this word in its popular acceptation) as affording the best prose opportunity for display of the highest talent. It has peculiar advantages which the novel does not admit. It is, of course, a far finer field than the essay. It has [...]
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By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of “Voices of the Night,” “Hyperion,” &c. Second edition. John Owen, Cambridge.
“IL Y A A PARIER,” says Chamfort, “que toute idee publique, toute convention recue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand notore.”– One would be safe in wagering that any given public idea is erroneous, for [...]
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[Graham's Magazine, January, 1842]
IN Commencing, with the New Year, a New Volume, we shall be permitted to say a very few words by way of exordium to our usual chapter of Reviews, or, as we should prefer calling them, of Critical Notices. Yet we speak not for the sake of the exordium, but because we [...]
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A Satire. By L. A. Wilmer
A SATIRE, professedly such, at the present day, and especially by an American writer, is a welcome novelty indeed. We have really done very little in the line upon this side of the Atlantic– nothing certainly of importance– Trumbull’s clumsy poem and Halleck’s “Croakers” to the contrary notwithstanding. Some things [...]
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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, AND OTHER TALES
By Charles Dickens, With Numerous Illustrations by Cattermole
and Browne. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.
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MR. BRYANT’S poetical reputation, both at home and abroad, is greater, we presume, than that of any other American. British critics have frequently awarded him high praise, and here, the public press have been unanimous in approbation. We can call to mind no dissenting voice. Yet the nature, and, most especially the manner, of the [...]
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THE CULPRIT FAY, AND OTHER POEMS
Joseph Rodman Drake
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IT HAS been said that a good critique on a poem may be written by one who is no poet himself. This, according to your idea and mine of poetry, I feel to be false– the less poetical the critic, the less just the critique, and the converse. On this account, and because the world’s [...]
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