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Our limits will not permit « s to give the exquisite pendant to this , in the portrait of the younger brother , or the withering effects of the contrast upon th $ feelings of the young and sensitive bride , passages which might sufficiently establish the
renutation of any writer . But we do not think that there are many poets , the merit of whose great productions is so general and pervading . These passages are not oases in the wilderness ; if they lead any one to the poem , they will not lead him to disap * pointment .
The next pieces are , * The Gentle Armour' ( we defy our readers to unriddle the title , ) and * Hero and Leander ! ' Both have their beauties ; but we do not particularly admire them . We have then the * Feast of the Poets / one of the moat pleasant , poetical , and good-humoured of satires . The miscellaneous poems are unequal , like most others . There are some affecting lines on a sick child sleeping . There are also some fine sonnets : in one , entitled , A Thought of the Nile , " we have the following great
image : — * It flows through old hush'd Egypt and its sands , Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream . ' - ~~ p . 211 . On ' A Lock of Milton ' s Hair / terminates by this beautiful version of a very common and natural sentiment : —
There seems a love in hair , though it be dead . 11 is the gentlest , yet the strongest thread Of our irail plant , —a blossom from the tree , Surviving the proud trunk;—as though it said Patience and Gentleness is Power . In me Behold affectionate eternity ?—p , 813 , Our poet and his friend Keats once sat down to compose each a sonnet on the same subject , « the Grasshopper and the Cricket . ' Keats begun , — 4 poetry of earth is never dead /—Hunt— Green little vaulter in the sunny grass .
Was ever the constitutional difference between two poets more strikingly marked than in these different exordia ? We mean not to disparage the sonnet of Hunt , which is full of spirit and feeling , and which he has justly thought deserving of a place in the collection .
Some of the translations are vigorous and happy . Some of them , too , would have been no loss to the volume . All are occasionally disfigured by super-orig inal graces . We will , not , however , conclude with censure . There are more fine things in this book , than in most of its size in the recent literature of England . We had here laid down our patent metallic , when it occurred
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The Poeticdl Work * of Leigh Hunt . 188
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/39/
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