The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 93

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Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 93: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, January, 1904In going still farther back for the his toric origins of American transcendental ism, we must recognize the earlier in¿u ence of Burns, Coleridge, and Words worth, as laying the foundations for all this new atmosphere of thought and liv ing. This is a fact of much interest as compared with the first reception of all these poets in their own country. The London Monthly Review the lead ing critical magazine in England before the Edinburgh Review appeared - pro nounced Burns's first volume to be dis gusting, and written in an unknown tongue, the editor adding his own partial version of The Cotter's Saturday Night translated into the English language 1 The same editor pronounced Coleridge's Ancient Mariner the strangest story of a cockandbullthatwe ever sawon paper a rhapsodyofunintelligiblewildness and incoherence, of which we do not per ceive the drift, while Christabel was described by him as rude, unfeatured stuff. Even of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey the same critic complains that it is tinctured with gloomy, narrow, and un sociable ideas of seclusion from the com merce of the world and yet on turning the pages of Dennie's Portfolio published in Philadelphia simultaneously with the English periodical just quoted we find these very poets and, indeed, these identical poems hailed as the opening of a new intellectual era. Such, indeed, it was, but an era heralded in America with an eagerness, cordiality, and, above all, a cheerfulness such as might well belong to a fresher and more youthful life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.