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Excerpt from The Poets of America: With Occasional Notes
Many of the finest pieces in this volume have been drawn out from comers where they had long lain ibrgotten and neglected. Some of the devotional melodies are almost as sweet as any in the language. There are several firgitive anonymous pieces, that deserve a place along with those of the truest poets. The extracts from acknowledged sources are as various as they are beautifirl. None can describe nature with a simpler and more affecting beauty than Bryant. None could draw an American landscape in truer colors, and throw more endear-ingly around it the charm of moral and devout re¿ection, than Wilcox. In the bold delineation of external scenery, and in painting human passion, philosophy, religion, and the domestic affections, none have displayed a more powerfiil fancy, or a deeper pathos of feeling, than Dana. Few have written nobler odes than Pierpont. Burns himself could hardly have thrown off a sweeter extempore efi'usion than some of Brainard's. In the di¿icult field ofsacred drama, Hillhouse has Shown a rich and classic imagination. Few will contest the beauty of Willis's Scripture pieces. Others might be named, whose poetry at once individualizes their genius in the mind; but it is unnecessary. May the volume, thus selected, please and do good.
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