directly and with most open sympathy the full meaning it is to have for us. Only when poetry is thus considered in its larger aspects can the term "universal," as commonly applied to it, be fully understood. Any given action is in itself merely an individual fact, and any given feeling is no more than a personal experience. But when the action or the feeling is freed of its accidental circumstances, and its inner significance is allowed to appear, and especially when this meaning is expressed in terms of permanent beauty, the range of its interest increases until it includes all those who can share in it. We need not be Frenchmen to thrill to the story of Napoleon's wounded messenger, nor need we be Scotchmen to respond to the ringing appeal of Bruce in his address at Bannockburn. Love of freedom, admiration for loyalty in a high cause, these things belong to our common human nature, and bind in common sympathy all loyal hearts, of whatever country and of whatever time. That is the secret of all great poetry, of the breadth as well as the depth of its appeal. She Walks in Beauty Like the Night 183 There Be None of Beauty's Daughters 192 188 Youth and Age CALVERLEY, C. S., 1831-1884. CAMPBELL, T., 1779-1844. The Soldier's Dream Battle of the Baltic Earl March Look'd on His Dying Child 302 328 59 32 Hohenlinden 55 Lord Ullin's Daughter 20 Ode to Winter 350 Song to the Evening Star 229 The Beech Tree's Petition 251 The River of Life 266 To the Evening Star 228 Ye Mariners of England 257 CLOUGH, A. H., 1819-1861. Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth |