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shelley-第6部分
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bleeding feet。 Less tragic in its merely temporal aspect than the
life of Keats or Coleridge; the life of Shelley in its moral aspect
is; perhaps; more tragical than that of either; his dying seems a
myth; a figure of his living; the material shipwreck a figure of the
immaterial。
Enchanted child; born into a world unchildlike; spoiled darling of
Nature; playmate of her elemental daughters; 〃pard…like spirit;
beautiful and swift;〃 laired amidst the burning fastnesses of his
own fervid mind; bold foot along the verges of precipitous dream;
light leaper from crag to crag of inaccessible fancies; towering
Genius; whose soul rose like a ladder between heaven and earth with
the angels of song ascending and descending it;he is shrunken into
the little vessel of death; and sealed with the unshatterable seal
of doom; and cast down deep below the rolling tides of Time。 Mighty
meat for little guests; when the heart of Shelley was laid in the
cemetery of Caius Cestius! Beauty; music; sweetness; tearsthe
mouth of the worm has fed of them all。 Into that sacred bridal…
gloom of death where he holds his nuptials with eternity let not our
rash speculations follow him。 Let us hope rather that as; amidst
material nature; where our dull eyes see only ruin; the finer eye of
science has discovered life in putridity and vigour in decay;
seeing dissolution even and disintegration; which in the mouth of
man symbolise disorder; to be in the works of God undeviating order;
and the manner of our corruption to be no less wonderful than the
manner of our health;so; amidst the supernatural universe; some
tender undreamed surprise of life in doom awaited that wild nature;
which; worn by warfare with itself; its Maker; and all the world;
now
Sleeps; and never palates more the dug;
The beggar's nurse; and Caesar's。
Footnotes:
{1} That is to say; taken as the general animating spirit of the
Fine Arts。
{2} The Abbe Bareille was not; of course; responsible for
Savonarola's taste; only for thus endorsing it。
{3} We mean; of course; the hymn; 〃I rise from dreams of time。〃
{4} We are a little surprised at the fact; because so many
Victorian poets are; or have been; prose…writers as well。 Now;
according to our theory; the practice of prose should maintain fresh
and comprehensive a poet's diction; should save him from falling
into the hands of an exclusive coterie of poetic words。 It should
react upon his metrical vocabulary to its beneficial expansion; by
taking him outside his aristocratic circle of language; and keeping
him in touch with the great commonalty; the proletariat of speech。
For it is with words as with men: constant intermarriage within the
limits of a patrician clan begets effete refinement; and to
reinvigorate the stock; its veins must be replenished from hardy
plebeian blood。
{5} Wordsworth's adaptation of it; however; is true。 Men are not
〃children of a larger growth;〃 but the child IS father of the man;
since the parent is only partially reproduced in his offspring。
{6} The Rhythm of Life; by Alice Meynell。
{7} 〃And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth; even as a fig…
tree casteth her untimely figs; when she is shaken of a mighty wind〃
(Rev。 vi; 13)。
{8} Such analogies between master in sister…arts are often
interesting。 In some respects; is not Brahms the Browning of music?
{9} Seek FIRST; not seek ONLY。
{10} We hope that we need not refer the reader; for the methods of
magic architecture; to Ariosto and that Atlas among enchanters;
Beckford。
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