Critic.
“... It bears unquestionable evidences of true inspirations and, in fact, is so thoroughly spiritual that it is more likely to find ‘the fit audience though few’ than to attract the multitude ... The prose articles are much to our taste ... We know, however, of no periodical of the time which is so genuinely poetical and artistic in its tone.”
Standard of Freedom.
No. 1. (Price One Shilling.) JANUARY, 1850.
With an Etching by W. HOLMAN HUNT.
The Germ:
Thoughts towards Nature
In Poetry, Literature, and Art.
When whoso merely hath a little thought Will plainly think the thought which is in him,— Not imaging another's bright or dim, Not mangling with new words what others taught; When whoso speaks, from having either sought Or only found,—will speak, not just to skim A shallow surface with words made and trim, But in that very speech the matter brought: Be not too keen to cry—“So this is all!— A thing I might myself have thought as well, But would not say it, for it was not worth!” Ask: “Is this truth?” For is it still to tell That, be the theme a point or the whole earth, Truth is a circle, perfect, great or small?
London:
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