The complete writings of Walt Whitman . Hobr^t Burns as Ipoet anb person future will decide about Robert Burnsa what place will be assignd them of geniuses and genius the, slow but sure balancing JtiooertB,urns . ^ From dffioW^Mph oflhepainHn^ by Kramer ^ I But as we know him, from hises, and after nearly one century,. of collections, songs, letters, anec- the figure of the canny Scotchmanaiiu detail wonderfully complete, andt iinly by his own hand, he forms to-day, in some the most i rsonality a Then there ai hings in B and character that liiy endear him to Ai ..i. He was essential
The complete writings of Walt Whitman . Hobr^t Burns as Ipoet anb person future will decide about Robert Burnsa what place will be assignd them of geniuses and genius the, slow but sure balancing JtiooertB,urns . ^ From dffioW^Mph oflhepainHn^ by Kramer ^ I But as we know him, from hises, and after nearly one century,. of collections, songs, letters, anec- the figure of the canny Scotchmanaiiu detail wonderfully complete, andt iinly by his own hand, he forms to-day, in some the most i rsonality a Then there ai hings in B and character that liiy endear him to Ai ..i. He was essentially a Republican —..» ..«tc been at home in the Western United nd probably become eminent there. Hevs sample of the good-natured, warm- b 1, proud-spirited, amative, nlimentive, con- and early-middle-aged man of thei! everywhere and any- how. Without the race of which he is a distinct. IRovembet 3BouQbs specimen, (and perhaps his poems,) America andher powerful Democracy could not exist to-day —could not project with unparalleld historic swayinto the future. Perhaps the peculiar coloring of the era of Burnsneeds always first to be considerd. It included thetimes of the 76-83 Revolution in America, of theFrench Revolution, and an unparalleld chaos devel-opment in Europe and elsewhere. In every depart-ment, shining and strange names, like stars, somerising, some in meridian, some declining — Voltaire,Franklin, Washington, Kant, Goethe, Fulton, Napo-leon, mark the era. And while so much, and ofgrandest moment, fit for the trumpet of the worldsfame, was being transacted — that little tragi-comedyof R. life and death was going on in a countryby-place in Scotland! Burnss correspondence, generally collected andpublishd since his death, gives wonderful glints intoboth the amiable and weak (and worse than weak)parts of his portraiture, habits, good and bad luck,amb
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