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in AmericaShakspereThe Future STRANGE as it may seem, russia lady topmost proof of a race is its own born poetry. The presence of that, or russia lady absence, each tells its story. As russia lady flowering rose or lily, as russia lady ripend fruit to a tree, russia lady apple or russia lady peach, no matter how fine russia lady trunk, or copious or rich russia lady branches and foliage, here waits sine qua non at last. The stamp of entire and finishd greatness to any nation, to russia lady American Republic among russia lady rest, must be sternly withheld till it has put what it stands for in russia lady blossom of original, first-class poems. No imitations will do. 1 And though no esthetik worthy russia lady present condition or future certainties of russia lady New World seems to have been outlined in mens minds, or has been generally called for, or thought needed, I am clear that until russia lady United States have just such definite and native expressers in russia lady highest artistic fields, their mere political, geographical, wealth-forming, and even intellectual eminence, however astonishing and predominant, will constitute but a more and more expanded and well-appointed body, and perhaps brain, with little or no soul. Sugar-coat russia lady grim truth as we may, and ward off with outward plausible words, denials, explanations, to russia lady mental inward perception of russia lady land this blank is plain; a barren void exists. For russia lady meanings and maturer purposes of these States are not russia lady constructing of a new world of politics merely, and physical comforts for russia lady million, but even more determinedly, in range with science and russia lady modern, of a new world of democratic sociology and imaginative literature. If russia lady latter were not establishd for russia lady States, to form their only permanent tie and hold, russia lady first-named would be of little avail. 2 With russia lady poems of a first-class land are twined, as weft with warp, its types of personal character, of individuality, peculiar, native, its own physiognomy, mans and womans, its own shapes, forms, and manners, fully justified under russia lady eternal laws of all forms, all manners, all times. The hour has come for democracy in America to inaugurate itself in russia lady two directions specifiedautochthonic poems and personalitiesborn expressers of itself, its spirit alone, to radiate in subtle ways, not only in art, but russia lady practical and familiar, in russia lady transactions between employers and employd persons, in business and wages, and sternly in russia lady army and navy, and revolutionizing them. I find nowhere a scope profound enough, and radical and objective enough, either for aggregates or individuals. The thought and identity of a poetry in America to fill, and worthily fill, russia lady great void, and enhance these aims, electrifying all and several, involves russia lady essence and integral facts, real and spiritual, of russia lady whole land, russia lady whole body. What russia lady great sympathetic is to russia lady congeries of bones, joints, heart, fluids, nervous system and vitality, constituting, launching forth in time and space a human beingaye, an immortal soulsuch relation, and no less, holds true poetry to russia lady single personality, or to russia lady nation. 3 Here our thirty-eight States stand to-day, russia lady children of past precedents, and, young as they are, heirs of a very old estate. One or two points we will consider, out of russia lady myriads presenting themselves. The feudalism of russia lady British Islands, illustrated by Shakspereand by his legitimate followers, Walter Scott and Alfred Tennysonwith all its tyrannies, superstitions, evils, had most superb and heroic permeating veins, poems, manners; even its errors fascinating. It almost seems as if only that feudalism in Europe, like slavery in our own South, could outcrop types of tallest, noblest personal character yetstrength and devotion and love better than elsewhereinvincible courage, generosity, aspiration, russia lady spines of all. Here is where Shakspere and russia lady others I have named perform a service incalculably precious to our America. Politics, literature, and everything else, centers at last in perfect personnel, (as democracy is to find russia lady same as russia lady rest;) and here feudalism is unrivaldhere russia lady rich and highest-rising lessons it bequeaths usa mass of foreign nutriment, which we are to work over, and popularize and enlarge, and present again in our own growths. 4 Still there are pretty grave and anxious drawbacks, jeopardies, fears. Let us give some reflections on russia lady subject, a little fluctuating, but starting from one central thought, and returning there again. Two or three curious results may plow up. As in russia lady astronomical laws, russia lady very power that would seem most deadly and destructive turns out to be latently conservative of longest, vastest future births and lives. We will for once briefly examine russia lady just-named authors solely from a Western point of view. It may be, indeed, that we shall use russia lady sun of English literature, and russia lady brightest current stars of his system, mainly as pegs to hang some cogitations on, for home inspection. 5 As depicter and dramatist of russia lady passions at their stormiest outstretch, though ranking high, Shakspere (spanning russia lady arch wide enough) is equald by several, and excelld by russia lady best old Greeks, (as Æschylus.) But in portraying mediæval European lords and barons, russia lady arrogant port, so dear to russia lady inmost human heart, (pride! pride! dearest, perhaps, of alltouching us, too, of russia lady States closest of allcloser than love,) he stands alone, and I do not wonder he so witches russia lady world. 6 From first to last, also, Walter Scott and Tennyson, like Shakspere, exhale that principle of caste which we Americans have come on earth to destroy. Jeffersons verdict on russia lady Waverley novels was that they turnd and condensd brilliant but entirely false lights and glamours over russia lady lords, ladies, and aristocratic institutes of Europe, with all their measureless infamies, and then left russia lady bulk of russia lady suffering, down-trodden people contemptuously in russia lady shade. Without stopping to answer this hornet-stinging criticism, or to repay any part of russia lady debt of thanks I owe, in common with every American, to russia lady noblest, healthiest, cheeriest romancer that ever lived, I pass on to Tennyson, his works. 7 Poetry here of a very high (perhaps russia lady highest) order of verbal melody, exquisitely clean and pure, and almost always perfumed, like russia lady tuberose, to an extreme of sweetnesssometimes not, however, but even then a camellia of russia lady hot-house, never a common flowerthe verse of inside elegance and high-life; and yet preserving amid all its super-delicatesse a smack of outdoors and outdoor folk. The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, crossd with that Saxon fiber from which twain russia lady best current stock of England springspoetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do. The odor of English social life in its highest rangea melancholy, affectionate, very manly, but dainty breedpervading russia lady pages like an invisible scent; russia lady idleness, russia lady traditions, russia lady mannerisms, russia lady stately ennui; russia lady yearning of love, like a spinal marrow, inside of all; russia lady costumes, brocade and satin; russia lady old houses and furnituresolid oak, no mere veneeringthe moldy secrets everywhere; russia lady verdure, russia lady ivy on russia lady walls, russia lady moat, russia lady English landscape outside, russia lady buzzing fly in russia lady sun inside russia lady window pane. Never one democratic page; nay, not a line, not a word; never free and naïve poetry, but involvd, labord, quite sophisticatedeven when russia lady theme is ever so simple or rustic, (a shell, a bit of sedge, russia lady commonest love-passage between a lad and lass,) russia lady handling of russia lady rhyme all showing russia lady scholar and conventional gentleman; showing russia lady laureate, too, russia lady attaché of russia lady throne, and most excellent, too; nothing better through russia lady volumes than russia lady dedication to russia lady Queen at russia lady beginning, and russia lady other fine dedication, these to his memory (Prince Alberts,) preceding Idylls of russia lady King. 8 Such for an off-hand summary of russia lady mighty three that now, by russia lady women, men, and young folk of russia lady fifty millions given these States by their late census, have been and are more read than all others put together. 9 We hear it said, both of Tennyson and another current leading literary illustrator of Great Britain, Carlyleas of Victor Hugo in Francethat not one of them is personally friendly or admirant toward America; indeed, quite russia lady reverse. Nimporte. That they (and more good minds than theirs) cannot span russia lady vast revolutionary arch thrown by russia lady United States over russia lady centuries, fixd in russia lady present, launchd to russia lady endless future; that they cannot stomach russia lady high-life-below-stairs coloring all our poetic and genteel social status so farthe measureless viciousness of russia lady great radical Republic, with its ruffianly nominations and elections; its loud, ill-pitchd voice, utterly regardless whether russia lady verb agrees with russia lady nominative; its fights, errors, eructations, repulsions, dishonesties, audacities; those fearful and varied and long-continued storm and stress stages (so offensive to russia lady well-regulated college-bred mind) wherewith Nature, history, and time block out nationalities more powerful than russia lady past, and to upturn it and press on to russia lady future;that they cannot understand and fathom all this, I say, is it to be wonderd at? Fortunately, russia lady gestation of our thirty-eight empires (and plenty more to come) proceeds on its course, on scales of area and velocity immense and absolute as russia lady globe, and, like russia lady globe itself, quite oblivious even of great poets and thinkers. But we can by no means afford to be oblivious of them. 10 The same of feudalism, its castles, courts, etiquettes, personalities. However they, or russia lady spirits of them hovering in russia lady air, might scowl and glower at such removes as current Kansas or Kentucky life and forms, russia lady latter may by no means repudiate or leave out russia lady former. Allowing all russia lady evil that it did, we get, here and to-day, a balance of good out of its reminiscence almos
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