The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Miscellaneous Poems (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Miscellaneous Poems It may not be amiss to glance for a moment from Byron's massive individualism to what we may perhaps call the altruism of that literary pheno menon, Walt Whitman; whom we cannot help regarding as the John the Baptist of a new revelation. He undoubtedly is the first authentic voice of Democracy made audible in literature. For as to Byron and Shelley, it needs only to look at the delicate beauty of their lineaments, to under stand that, with the high-bred instincts of an old race in their veins, their aspirations could not fail to be after a Republic moulded on the Greek model, or shaped in accordance with a somewhat exclusive ideal. Walt Whitman, on the contrary, coming himself of rough work-a-day folk, feels the actual pulse of the people, and in their hearing, adapted to the needs of their hard, ugly, toilsome lives, he utters a thrilling word - the Shibboleth of the future - m 77161356. In this new conception of life we notice an affinity to the great music-dramas of Wagner, inasmuch as the predominance of melody, or the manifestation of individual ex pression, is subordinated to, although not absorbed in, the vast symphonic harmonies of the co Operating whole. This abiding consciousness of being simply an organic particle of the living body of the people - this recognition of the social bond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
