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put them , intellect is stunted . A time will come , when the education of both will proceed hand in hand ; let us rather say , when the aid of culture will be more particularly invoked to strengthen pthe part which is relatively deficient : or at lowest , to bestow the power of appreciation , when the quality to be appreciated is one which only nature can give .
Our author is as much of a poet as intense sensibility and vigorous intellect can make him , with the assistance of a memory richly stored with accurate pictures of things seen , and well seen , and keenly enjoyed , by himself . We do not think he has much fancy : his descriptions are extremely literal , and indeed profess to be so . The * Tale of Tacuman , ' his longest poem , was avowedly
Composed , not to body forth the ideal , but to delineate the actual : * To convey , ' he says in the preface , ' in as agreeable a form as may \> e , a knowledge of the manners and customs of the Southern Americans : the descriptions / he adds , * of scenery , costume ^ manners , and customs , are as accurate as though it were a prose work . Most of the incidents are of actual occurrence ; and living
beings have sat for the portraits of the actors . ' Having thus an object in view , altogether distinct from that of the poet and artist , the wonder is not great if he have not succeeded equally well in both . He had in reality a third purpose in addition ; the inculcation of his opinions , concerning things in general , not excepting persons , in digressions , after the manner of Don Juan , of which he has
likewise imitated the versification . The work is interesting , though most readers will , we are afraid ,, skip a great part of the descriptive passages , for the sake of which all the rest would appear to have been written . The claim of this publication to the character of poetry rests , we think , upon the strong human sympathies which unfold themselves in some passages of the rather meagre story . In several of our author ' s shorter poems , we think there
is more poetry ; though still of the same grade of excellence : no high order of imagination ; little beyond memory and strong feeling ; both of these , however , of the best kind , and quite sufficient to ensure his being always read with pleasure . The versification is often rugged , evidentl y from haste : when our author writes in verse , he should write more carefully , and alter more freely ; otherwise it is not worth while : the only reason for preferring verse to prose , being the music of its sound .
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870 Writing * of Junius Redivivvx
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' Btat nominU umbra / Behold ! how new and strange to mortal sight Where'er ' tis seen , a shadow beaming light ; Shine on—thy name > vill own no deeper shade Than that which is by its own brightness made .
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EPIGHAAf TO JUNIUS HEDIVIVUS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/54/
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