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 ALNWICK CASTLE, AND OTHER POEMS Fitz-Greene Halleck BEFORE entering upon the detailed notice which we propose of the volumes before us, we wish to speak a few words in regard to the present state of American criticism. It must be visible to all who meddle with [...]
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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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