Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — The Emotional Poet. [ARTICLE]

The Emotional Poet.

She ■ finds human passion, suffering and sympathy in clouds and flowers and weather, and she writes so rapturously of all this, that unless the reader shares her mood and divines with her, the anguish of the cirrus in the crepusculine ether, and the passionate tears and oracular utterances of the rose, he is quite bewildered by the rush and ecstacy of the verse. There is something depressing in the wail of women, heard from all quarters, over the agony of unsatisfied love. In former days, when poets were rare, did women suffer so ? Were they all like Mariana in the moated grange, “aweary, aweary,” because the mischief maker he came not ? or broken-hearted because, having come, he went away lightly with a gay “Good-by, sweetheart?” Does this almost universal singing of sorrow come as a relief to the sorrow itself ? Is it an abundant supply in answer to a great demand that has been increasing for generations, or is it fictitious, a mere yielding to the tempttation to write warm, musical, tearful verses, vague in thought and extravagant in expression?— Boston Advertiser. Kidney-Wost in this season sustains the system and keeps up the strength.