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Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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greateffect upon subsequent poets, was Edward FitzGerald(1809-1883). This effect was produced by his remark-able translation or paraphrase of the Persian astronomer-poet, Omar Khayyam, which first appeared in 1859. Byits ridicule of asceticism and self-denial, and its mysticalmaterialism, it has done much to render an epicurean pes-simism popular. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) is more famous as acritic than as a poet, yet he showed considerable powerin his poems, in which he endeavors to restrain the tend-ency to ornament and to return to the simplicity ofWordsworth, or rather of Greek. About 1850 there was a stir of poetic feeling whichwas chiefly manifested in what was ultimately condemnedby its name, the Spasmodic School. The leaders werethe English Sydney Dobell (1824-1874) and the ScotchAlexander Smith (1829-1867). Dobell, who wasafflicted with ill health, wrote two dramas, one of which,Balder (1853), has been compared to Ibsens laterwork. Smith published A Life Drama (1853), which
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ENGLISH 97 had a phenomenal, but only temporary success. Thetwo poets, excited by the Crimean War, published to-gether, Sonnets on the War (1855), and Dobell con-tinued in the same strain in England in the Time ofWar (1856). Smith published City Poems (1857),and afterwards confined himself chiefly to prose descrip-tion. During their vogue the young poets were extrava-gantly praised, but judicious critics pointed out theirheaping up of imagery and sentiment and excess of pas-sion. They were in fact heirs of the spirit of Byron,but transferred their heroes struggles from the world ofaction to the world of thought. Their dramatic effortswere effectively burlesqued by W. E. Aytoun in his Fir-milian, a Spasmodic Tragedy, which silenced them. An older poet, belonging to the same school, wasPhilip James Bailey, born in 1816, whose Festus(1839) ^^^ a while took the world by storm. It was along poetical and philosophical colloquy between God,Lucifer, angels and men. Some admirers regarded it a

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