This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...rends the solid oak: Ah heaven! behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, spreads, and parts in ruin o'er the tide.2 The defects of The Shipwreck are first the conventional style of its versification. It is plain that the poet had modelled this on Pope's translation of the Iliad, a practice which, as the extracts I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...rends the solid oak: Ah heaven! behold her crashing ribs divide! She loosens, spreads, and parts in ruin o'er the tide.2 The defects of The Shipwreck are first the conventional style of its versification. It is plain that the poet had modelled this on Pope's translation of the Iliad, a practice which, as the extracts I have given show, tends to " make poetry" (or at least metre) " a mere mechanic art." Another fault is, that he sometimes fails to realise the fact that his poem is narrative, and not didactic. Misled by his admiration for the digressions in compositions like The Seasons, he tries to introduce similar passages, and in the third Canto, while the vessel is rushing to her doom, pauses to make an excursion to " the adjacent nations of Greece, renowned in antiquity," where he dwells upon the virtues of Socrates, Plato, and Aristides. Finally he falls into the error of using many technical terms, and though this is occasioned by the intensity of his actual experience, it mars the effect of his striking descriptions by compelling the reader to refer constantly to foot-notes. Thus--1 Canto iii. 612. 2 Canto iii. 633-652. Roused from his trance, he mounts with eyes aghast, When o'er the ship in undulation vast, A giant surge down rushes from on high, And fore and aft discovered ruins lie. As when Britannia's empire to maintain, Great Hawke descends in thunder on the main, Around the brazen voice of battle roars, And fatal lightnings blast the hostile shores; Beneath the storm their shattered navies groan; The trembling deep recoils from zone to zone: Thus the torn vessel felt th' enormous stroke; The boats beneath the thundering deluge broke; Torn from their planks, the cracking ring-bolts drew, And gripes and lashings all...
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