Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . logical accord,whether for good or evil. Victor Hugo, of France (b. February 26, 1802; d. May 22, 1885), was, inhis day, the most popular author who has ever lived. Few poems, nodrama, and absolutely no novel have ever produced the immediate andtremendous effect of his earlier poems, his Hernani,
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . logical accord,whether for good or evil. Victor Hugo, of France (b. February 26, 1802; d. May 22, 1885), was, inhis day, the most popular author who has ever lived. Few poems, nodrama, and absolutely no novel have ever produced the immediate andtremendous effect of his earlier poems, his Hernani, and his Les Mise-rables. Through Hernani he completely defeated the classic school andbecame the leader of the romantic school of revolutionary individualists, thus EPOCH-MAKERS OF THE CENTURY. Ill creating a new epoch in literature. He invented novelties in poetry andprose which produced strength, variety, delicacy, harmony, and richness ofimagery and coloring, absolutely unparalleled and original. Poets. — Lord George Gordon Byron, of England (b. January 22, 1788; 19, 1824), is a remarkable instance of a poet of marvelous naturalpowers, mingling good and evil in accordance with the whim that took him ;yet exhibiting distinctly, through it all, evidences of a great soul and LORD BYRON. He created an epoch in the worlds poetic literature. Skeptical, cynical,melancholy even to sentimentality, and skillfully manipulating the publicside of his affairs to keep up a most fascinating air of romantic mysteryabout them all, he succeeded in affecting public thought with these character-istics to a wonderful extent. As a result, Byronism, for a time, was theabsorbing rage in all prominent circles, literary and even social. Henry W. Longfellow (b. February 27, 1807; d. March 24, 1882) is pos-sibly the centurys finest type of the peoples poet. Though by no means apoet of great imaginative or creative powers, yet few reached his perfect 718 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XI
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