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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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poet is to-day. If be «! es I I fl< I ' «U Hi the imm« diate a e as with vast oceanic tides—if be be inn iiimsell the a brand ur I •• • 1 < merge itfthe eneralrun, nd wait hi vel enf "Th expre aion of the Am rican p >-\ ie be transc ndent and new. It is to be ii III Ct, ftl 1 not direct or descriptive r epic, lis quality >es throt h these to much more. Let t h e age and wai of ' ei nations be chanted and their eras and character be illustrated, and that lini h the verse, h so tin psalm of the republic. Here the theme creative, and has vista. Whatever stagnat 8 in the tloa* of custom or obedience or legi lation, the great poet never stagnates. Obedience does not ma fcer him, h< H m a concentrated light—he baffles the swifto r runnei as he stands, and easily overtakes and envelopes them. The time straying toward infidelity and fectionsand persiflage he withholds by steady faith "The power to destroy or remould is freelv I d by the greatest poet, but seldom the power i ' attack What is past is past. If he does not exj ri r model is not what is wanted. The presence f the -res poet conquers—not parleying, or 3trugglin or any prepared attempts." "The greatest poet u ly knows pettiness or trivality. If he breath g int anything that was before small, it <lih. w i t .|, the grandeur and life of the universe. [\0 , :l M V r _ _ h is i n d i v i d u a l - h e is complete in h i m s e l f - t h e thei are as good as he, only he sees it, and bhey ,1" n o t . "The land and sea, the animal iahetai d birda the sky of heaven and the orbs, t ho f () ,v 8 t tainsand rivers, are not small thon.,l > s * w - ' " i t t IK K. ,M 132 <* ] mtv a 1
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