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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS UPON THE COUH9E Of TIME. from GiLFiitAn's Literary Misckllasy, With Occasional Strictpkes.] In accounting for the popularity of the poem, Mr. Gilfiilan first adverts to the youthfulness of the author, and remarks: ? The fact that a youth so impressed, by one effort of his mind, many?who were not straightway deemed insane?as to draw forth the daring of equalling him with Milton, and his work with Paradise Lost, speaks much in its favor. In the second place, he adds: It was a religious poem, and this at once awakened a wide and warm interest in its favor It was, besides, a poem by a dissenter; and between the gentle but timid genius of Michael Bruce, and the far more energetic song of Pollok, no poetry deserving the name had been produced among them. It was natural, therefore, that when, at length, a brilliant star broke forth in their firmament, they should salute its' arrival with lawful and general pride. A few, indeed, of the more malignant of those who found themselves eclipsed, felt hatred, and pretended to feel contempt for the poem. He proceeds to say: But the principal cause of its popularity, was the premature death of the poet. This lent, instantly, a consecrating magic to its every line, ?passed over it like a pitying hand, ?hiding its bulky faults, ?caused the poisoned arrows of many an intended critic to fall powerless from his grasp, aroused a tide of universal sympathy, and sympathy is akin to applause; put, in a word, the capstone Oh its triumph. Still the book had much merit of its own. In the first place, he remarks: It was, on the whole, an original production. There were, it is true, as in all youthful works, traces of resemblance, and even imitations of favorite authors. Here, Milton's majestic tones and a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217846554 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217846556 |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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