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"To my thinking Comus' isn't in it with the. 'Faithful Shepherdess.' A fellow like Milton, that has bored me with Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes,' I have absolutely no use for. When I read Milton, as I have to, I read him for study, not for enjoyment. I feel that Milton is rhetoric just as Spenser is rhetoric. Take L'Allegro,' Comus,' etc.; these are rhetoric-jolly good rhetoric some parts of them. I should guess that Lycidas' and some few of Milton's sonnets were some of the most spontaneous things he ever did. He certainly wasn't spontaneous in 'Samson Agonistes,' although he spoke out with a certain resonant bang. No one can be spontaneous who constructs a Greek tragedy on the plan of a Hebrew story." We would respectfully suggest to the New York World that if the paragraphs which appear in this department of THE BOOKMAN are good enough to quote, they are also good enough to entitle us to receive credit for them. Here are three delightful anecdotes, all of them strictly true, that cast a somewhat lurid light upon the literary culture of East, West, and South respectively. The scene of the first is laid in Providence, Rhode Island, where a young lady was asked the other day by her uncle to make some purchases for him, of which he gave her a written list. The first item was "Scott's Emulsion," No. 4. The scene of the second occurrence is in a thriving city of the West, where a Southern littérateur of distinction had just delivered a long and critical lecture on Matthew Arnold to a fashionable audience. A friend of the lecturer, while passing out of the hall, overheard the following conversation between two ladies : "That was a pretty good lecture, on the whole; but who was this Matthew Arnold, anyway?" "Oh, I don't know. I haven't time to keep up with all these new Southern writers!" |