English Composition And Rhetoric Vol 2 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...The mingling of subjective description with all the arts previously illustrated, still further complicates the erotic strain of composition. It renders a consecutive order more and more difficult, without, however, doing away with the advantages of method. Taking this new circumstance along with those previously named, and confining ourselves to the joyous side of love emotion, we may next pass in review Tennyson's 'Gardener's Daughter' considered as a highly artistic specimen of erotic art. Passing over the introduction, we take up the narrative at the point where the two friends, both painters, take the road to the gardener's cottage: --Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells;And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock. The fields between Are dewy-fresh, browsed by deep-udder'd kine. These descriptive and concrete allusions, and more to the same effect--not specially in the style of the author, but common to him with poets generally, --give the interval to be gone over to the gardener's cottage. The delineation of the beauty herself commences--Who had not heard Of Rose, the gardener's daughter? Where was he, So blunt in memory, so old at heart, At such a distance from his youth in grief, That, having seen, forgot? The common mouth, So gross to express delight, in praise of her Grew oratory. Such a lord is love, And Beauty such a mistress of the world. This very usual mode of celebrating beauty merely whets appetite; it is but a prelude to some more definite picture that we can in some measure conceive. The poet's art shines forth in what comes next. It is the feverish.