. The Photographic art-journal . , Boston, H. Vezian,Henry G. Evans, Robert Webb, Hiram Fuller, William Young, Robert A. West, A. P. Cummings, David Deans, Joseph Barber, Thomas Stack, C. L. Daboll, Wm. H. Hallock, Augs. Maverick. POETRY AND PAINTING. OETRY and Painting areclosely connected ; whatihe one describes,the otherportrays. Painting is onlythe offspring of poetry—one of the manifestations(of a poetic spirit. Poetry is notsyllables that jingle well together,prose cramped into metre, versifi-cation that may be measured byfeet, and may be made to flowthrough meadows of margin ; it issome
. The Photographic art-journal . , Boston, H. Vezian,Henry G. Evans, Robert Webb, Hiram Fuller, William Young, Robert A. West, A. P. Cummings, David Deans, Joseph Barber, Thomas Stack, C. L. Daboll, Wm. H. Hallock, Augs. Maverick. POETRY AND PAINTING. OETRY and Painting areclosely connected ; whatihe one describes,the otherportrays. Painting is onlythe offspring of poetry—one of the manifestations(of a poetic spirit. Poetry is notsyllables that jingle well together,prose cramped into metre, versifi-cation that may be measured byfeet, and may be made to flowthrough meadows of margin ; it issomething higher, nobler, betterthan this. 1 he poet is not simply a manwho can sit in a chair and write verses,but he is a man speaking to man : a man,it is true, endued with more lively sensibi-lity, more enthusiasm and tenderness, whohas a greater knowl- dge of human nature,a more comprehensive soul, than are sup-posed to be common among mankind ; whohas contemplated nature in her thousandforms, who has treasured within bim the. remembrance of all .that is beautiful andgreat, who has studied the huge volumethat lies open before him with all its moun-tain tropes and lofty periods, and who iswilling to communicate the sweetness heenjoys. This spirit is revealed to theworld in unceasing variety. Sometimes it produces a man toweringabove his fellows—as he who was driveninto greatness by the deer-stalking prose-cution of a Warwickshire squire-^Shak-spijare, at whose words the world stilllaughs, or sheds big tears of sorrow, as thecase may be. Sometimes it gives us aman whose beautiful conceptions are vivid-ly portrayed in glowing colors on the can-vass ; a Raphael, whose glorious groupingand rich coloring attract our earnest gaze,and waken up within us something of thespirit of the painter. Old Bible scenes,so touching, so august, so natural, that weseem to breathe the very air of Palestine,and dwell within that holy land where He* 1853. The Photographic Art-Journal. 57 brew chiv
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