Excerpt from Iceland Fisherman

Which remain invariable, a yearning passion for beauty, and a limpid purity of style. He is as brilliant and realistic an impressionist as any of his countrymen, but he is more than all a senti mentalist, and never describes a scene without the accompanying emotion which unites it to his soul and ours. The poet's passion for beauty is his own, but his expression of it is essentially Gallic, as it is never divested of the personal rela tion to himself. An abstract rapture over the frozen beauties of a Greek vase could never have arisen from the heart of this fascinating egotist. Like all poets, his nature is as deep as a well and as re¿ective as the mirror of its surface.

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