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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 8: the Southern influence---Whitman (search)
melodiousness is hardly capable of explaining the hold which poems like Israfel maintain upon readers of the best poetry in all tongues. The two most commonplace things that can be said about Poe's verse are, that it is weird and that it is musical; but perhaps they say pretty much all that need be said. The real merit in this poetry, the quality which makes it perfect in its kind, is so subtle as to elude definition. A little may be done by comparison: there are passages in Blake, in Beddoes, and, above all, in Coleridge, which seem to suggest Poe's habitual mood and tone. With what in English verse so naturally as with Kubla Khan does the opening stanza of Israfel compare?-- In heaven a spirit doth dwell Whose heart-strings are a lute; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell), Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. It is easy to say that there is nothing in this, any more than in those famous lines:--