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    Right worthy of the land and the language of Robert Burns are these songs of one on whom has descended no small portion of the glorious ploughman ' s inspiration . They are abundant in pathos , in humour , in fancy , in poetical description , and * above all , in just and nervous sentiment . They are songs which a truehearted man , or a woman with a mind , need not be ashamed of

    singing ; and that is more than can be said of nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand of the things called songs , in which we seldom escape from what is very silly , unless it be to encounter something that is very false . The other poems have the same character with those which are strictly lyrical . All are imbued with a spirit which makes one proud of humanity ; the more so ,

    t £ we infer , from various indications , that they are the productions of on ^ of the producing class , the work of a working-mari , a fresh contribution to the poetry of the poor . The growth <> f such prbdttctions is amongst tne most impressive signs of ffe times . Burns lived before the days of patronage had passed away ; they / a 3 fe now clean gone , and for ever . His soul towered above his

    clrciimstances ; out still he often wrote for his superiors ; his successors Write for their equals . As a bard , he was of * the many , and for the many ; but in them the mission has become more distinct , and the encouragement more direct and stimulating ; nor does this limit the interest of their poetry . It has more of the quality of poetry than it could have were they in his condition - There is more truth and soul in it . It comes the more home to )

    all humanity . What little there is , in the author before us , of the factitious or conventional , ia chiefl y to be found in the love 6 origs ; with a slighter touch of it in the descriptions . Poets are slow to learn that it is by no means their duty to be poetical on aft occasions or on all subjects , however legally established the poeticality of such occasions or subjects may be , by the old constitution of

    Parnassus . In the right Ail / democracy or song , or father ia . its sacred individuality , its Pantisocracy , no man is obliged to say what he does not see , or sing what he does not feel . Poetry is not amanufecture ; and the poet ntoi y nof tAe an Ord ^ f fdr * song even from his own mind . His fturfitfctontt should aftfayg be awake * * Po « n »> adLyiktf 1 # ttrtmllHlff ^ ; r - '

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    ¦ .:.:.. ¦ NICXILL'S POEMS . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 764, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/8/