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INTEODUCTOEY ESSAY. 9
the objective poet, in his appeal to the aggregate
human mind, chooses to deal with the
doings of men, (the result of which dealing,
in its pure form, when
even description, as
suggesting a describer, is dispensed with, is
what we call dramatic
poetry), while the
subjective poet, whose study has been himself,
appeahng through
himself to the absolute
Divine mind, prefers to dwell upon
those
external scenic appearances which strike
out most
abundantly and uninterruptedly
his inner light and power, selects that silence
of the earth and sea in which he can best
hear the beating of his individual heart, and
leaves the noisy,
complex, yet imperfect
exhibitions of nature in the manifold experience
of man around him, which serve only
to distract and suppress the working of his
brain.
These opposite tendencies of genius
will be more readily descried in their artistic
effect than in their moral spriug and cause.
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