Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230274423
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 14-15 by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 14-15 written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... Mary E. Hewitt.1 Mrs. Hewitt has become known entirely through her contributions to our periodical literature. I am not aware that she has written any prose, but her poems have been numerous and often excellent. A collection of them was published not long ago in an exquisitely tasteful form, by Ticknor & Co., of Boston. The leading piece, entitled "Songs of Our Land," was by no means the most meritorious, although the largest in the volume. In general, these compositions evince the author's poetic fervor, classicism of taste and keen appreciation of the beautiful, in the moral as well as in the physical world. No one of them, perhaps, can be judiciously commended as a whole, but no one of them is without merit, and there are several which would do credit to any poet in the land -- still even these latter are rather particularly than generally commendable. They lack unity, totality, ultimate effect, but abound in forcible passages. For example: -- "Shall I portray thee in thy glorious seeming, Thou that the Pharos of my darkness art?" "Like the blue lotos on its own clear river Lie thy soft eyes, beloved, upon my soul. "Here 'mid your wild and dark defile, O'erawed and wonder-whelmed I stand, And ask, 'Is this the fearful vale That opens on the shadowy land ?'" "And there the slave -- a slave no more -- Hung reverent up the chain he wore." 1 See Appendix for Griswold text. "Oh, friends, we would be treasured still! Though Time's cold hand should cast His misty veil, in after years, Over the idol Past, Yet tend to us some offering thought O'er Memory's ocean wide -- Pure as the Hindoo's votive lamp On Ganga's sacred tide." The conclusion of "The Ocean Tideto the Rivulet" puts me in mind of the rich spirit of Horne's noble epic "Orion...".
