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Excerpt from A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue On the other hand, the gain to Irishmen of speaking and writing in English is very great. It enables them to put their national aspirations, and the thoughts and passions which are best expressed in poetry, into a language which is rapidly becoming universal. It enables them to tell the world of literature of the ancient myths, legends, and stories of Ireland, and to represent them...

Excerpt from The Fight of Faith: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions "And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" - Luke vii. 24. The form into which Christ in this passage throws His view of the character of John the Baptist illustrates more than the symbolic method of His teaching. One sees in the choice of...

Excerpt from The Onward Cry, and Other Sermons "After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things that shall be hereafter." - Rev. iv. 1. It was a wonderful hour that thrilled into forgetfulness all his prison-pain, when the exile at Patmos who wrote this book heard, like many another prophet, the voic...

Excerpt from Studies in PoetryIn other ways, more immediately connected with the history of poetry in England, he was also a forerunner, striking into the light and air high up on the mount Parnassus new fountains of song which were in the future to become rivers of fresh emotion, thought, and imagination. It is fascinating to stand at the birthplace of a great stream and think of the splendour, use, and comfort it has been to the children of ...

Excerpt from Faith and Freedom Stopford Brooke is the greatest preacher that the Church of England has had since Robertson of Brighton, and his withdrawal from the Church is, in many respects, the most significant recent occurrence in the English religious world. The deep interest which his new movement has awakened in America, where, both as a religious thinker and a man of letters, he has almost as many admirers as in England itself, has in...

Excerpt from Tennyson, Vol. 2 of 2: His Art and Relation to Modern Life The Coming of Arthur shows this conception fully orbed in the mind df Tennyson. Arthur is the rational soul, not the son of Uther and Ygerne, but coming mysteriously from heaven and washed into Merlin's arms by a great wave. Merlin, who edu cates him, is intellectual power, with all the magic of science. Arthur's kingship is opposed by the brutal and sensual powers in hum...