THIS DAlLr EVENING- TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1870 THE FAILURE OF M n I) E R K TR A 1 EDY OS THE HTAME. From Hi London Saturday lifview. Tbat the tragedies of modern poets, when produced on the Blag?, fail to excite tho sym pathies of the audience that even the best are received with dissatisfaction, not only by the many, but perhaps in a mill greater de cree by the few is now almost among the platitudes of criticism. Tho fact is recog nized, but there is Htill disagreement with regard to its cause. No doubt to mention one among tho many causes of the fact a deeper apprecia tion of the more subtle beauties of poetry h is grown among us, and with it an always in creaaiug demand tbat none of these beauties shall be lost in the representation. We do hire to see the conclusions at which we our selves have arrived through careful study confirmed in the actor's conception and ex ecution of his part; or, if there is sotno character in the piece which wo in our read ing have felt ourselves unable to grasp com pletely, we expect that tho actor will throw a utronger light upon it, and help us to under stand it better. That such expectations are in general disappointed, most of us have learnt by experience. One or two characters may, it is possible, realize our wishes; we may find our ideal in tho actor's representa tion ; we may learn something that will enlarge our ideal or give us a better in its place. It is seldom that even the most skilful actors satisfy us entirely; but they often pro vide us with useful suggestions, and direct our attention to what may otherwise have escaped our notice; and we will grant that, when we Bee a great tragedy performed by a good company, we aro pleased on tho wholo with ouo or two of the characters. This, however, is the ntmost that wo can reasonably oxpecf; at the best, the greater part of tho play will Ve mangled by gaucherie and iguorauce; and we nhull return home saying, as we and others may often have said before, that the Lest stage for a great play is the reader's own mind, llis conception may be sadly inada qnate, but there is at any rate more harmony and completeness in it thr.u he can hope to find in a theatrical representation. This may in part explain tho fact that few thoughtful men witness tragedy on tho mod ern English stage with unmixed enjoyment. Hut the reasoning applies no less to the plays of Shakespeare than to the plays of more modern poets. Shakespeare is still producod with some success with only partial success, it is true, but with greater success than the best plays of our later poets. We want some theory which will account for the complete failure on the stage of works like Mr. Brown ing's Jliot in the SculrJicoii and Mrafford. That tho fault, if there be any fault, is not entirely on the side of tho public is sulll ciently evident, since it does not altogether refuse a hearing to Shakespeare. Let us con sider what there is in such plays which dis tinguishes them from the Elizabethan dramn, and prevents them from gaining the public ear at all. The question has often been debated; and it Las often been settled by an appeal to that most dangerous and fallacious of cauons, "poetical inspiration of the highest ordar is impossible in an age of criticism." When the first unconscious efforts of genius have ceased, we are told, man begins to analyze that which ho has accomplished; and the prin ciple that prompts him to analyze once within tim, he can no longer create poetry in the most elevated sense of tho word is at an end. The poet will no longer write what will awaken the sympathies of his fellow-mnn. educated and uneducated alike. Tho vigorous simplicity and unclouded truth which ehar.ie terizo the earliest poetry, and which every one can appreciate, have gone from among ns. We shall still have poets; but they will not do more than write each for n more or less limited circle of readers, whereas tho llrst poets wrote for the whole of hum inity. This last statement is true. It is true that later poetry is less universal, in one sense of the word, than that which precedes it. Tho kind of universality or generality which arises from a comparative simplicity in tho environment of the poet and his public, an I vhich we find in tho oldest poetry of the world, is generally lost as poetry continues its advance through higher stages of develop ment. The aits diverge more aud more frou one another; they become more and more specialized; and as they increase in speciality, they proceed further from the kind of generality that we have mentioned, always however approaching another and higher kind of generality. The progress is from that universality which arises from the fact that the world in which the artist moves is still to a great degree homogeneous, to a knowledge of the intinite universal relations which determine and constitute the indi vidual. How this bears upon the question of the failure of modern tragedies we shall see presently. It will be sufficient to remark here that the advance of the poetical art in the direction of greater speciality is not a matter of reproach: and, further, if it be so, that tho growth of criticism is not to blame. The age of Shakespeare is in fact by no means marked by the absence of crilicisoi. Its principles were indeed less clearly understood than they are in the present day, but the spirit of analysis and this is what the rea Foners of whom we have spoken declare to be inimical to truo poetry was already in existence. The truth is that criticism is always attendant npon, and correlative to, artistic production. The earliest efforts are undoubtedly on the side of the artist, be cause there must be something to criticise before criticism is possible; but when criti cism has once come into being, its develop ment is on the whole parallel with that of the other arts. False canons of criticism may for a time arrest the progres of art, but there is no essential antagonism betweeu criticism on the one side aud poetry, paint ing, and music on the other; it is in general not only beneficial, but necessary. It may be urged, on the other hand, that the Greatest uoets have always shown the greatest disregard for the laws laid down by critics. Whatever there is of truth in this, it rvay be remarked, applies as well to Shelley and Mr. Browning as to Shakespeare aud his contemporaries. But the circumstance is not to be attributed to any irreconcilable feud between them and criticism as such. Creative genius has so often been unitjl with great critical power in tho Htuie mind we need not multiply instances; it will Le sufficient to mention tbe names of Goethe, Lessing, and Oj'eride that it seems probable that the disable ment between great poets and their critics arises not from a necessary opposition be tween them, but from the fact that the former understand the true laws of criticism better than the professed critics themselves. Tiie principles of criticism are obtained iudn tively, by an examination of the best exi-itiag works of art, of all countries and all ages. They are only provisional; they are false if they will not admit of modification and extension. When a genius arises, sending forth into the world sew works of art, we hare new in- Mrmcps which must bo included within our generalizations. It becomes necessary to amplify them. This wor'c is often done by the poets themselves, sometimes by critics who aro not poets. Very frequently, how ever, the critic refuse admission to the new cases, and tbero is war botwaen the post. and the critics. Tho frequency of the last phenomenon has given rise to the notion that war is the only natural rola'ion between them. Since, then, the rise of tho critical spirit is not to bear the blame of the failure of modern tragedies on the stage, where are we to look for tho true cause '( It has already been hinted that, the theory of development by continual differentiation will throw some light npon tho question. Mr. Herbert Spencer . has applied tho theory to the early history of the fine arts in Greece. Ho has shown how poetry, music, and dancing How from a common source the monotonous chant accompanied by rude instruments to which in the earliest times men marched in procession to the altars of their gods; how they gradually becamo dis tinct, and received each u separate aud piral lel development, not, however, without act ing and reacting upon one another c mtinu ally: how poetry, having readied tho comp tivelv high development which we find in tho Odyssey, began itself to diverge in differ ent directions, and how in this way lyrical poetry and the drama, both of which were po tentially contained in the epic, obtained both an independent existence. We see this principle at work throughout the history of art, if at least we do not cou fine our attention to short periods, but regard its development in any degree as a whole. If we compare, for instance, the English literature of the Elizabethan era with that of the nineteenth century, and more especially that portion of our literature which may be fairly comprehended under the drama, we bhall see that many things, of which hitherto no adequate explanation has been given, may bo explained as natural results of tho law of progress. Shakespeare and the other dra matists of his time advance far beyond their predecessors in extending tho range of dramatic writing. We find in their works that the distinction between tragedy and comedy has been esta blished; most of tho conventional characters which ore repealed in the moral plays with little variation have been thrown aside; real characters, drawn from tho experience of life, have in general tuken tho place of the devils and the virtues and the vices of earlier poets; art has separated itself from religion and morality, to which in former times it was intended to bo entirely subservient. Thero has been a marked progress from the general to the special; from abstractions, in which experience is vaguely summed up, to pictures of actual men and women of decided indi viduality. Still, however, the drama is suffi ciently narrow to be almost completely within the scope of one great poot. The field occupied by Shakespeare appears to ns to be of immense extent, lie seems to have been conversant with every phase of human feeling. And no doubt the wonder and admiration with which we regard him is in a great measure just. But we must not forget that we are apt often to attribute to Shakespeare tint which is ia reality a modern interpretation of what he wrote; wo are apt to consider that to have existed actually in his thoughts which can only really be said to have existed there poten tially ; his writings contain indead the gerniB of much of our nineteenth century thought, but we roquiro to be reminded that they were us yet only germs, that they had not tho full meaning for Shakespeare and his contemporaries that they possess now for us. We must remember also that tho range of Shakespeare's plays is almost co-extensive with that of the whole dramatic art of his age; it can hardly bo said that any important species of it which we liud in the writings of Lis contemporaries in England is altogether outside of his. Turning to the dramatic productions of our own time, we see at once how vast a pro gress in speciality has taken place. It is no loijger possible for man it would bo impos sible even for a pecond Shakespeare to cover the ground that the 'drama has now appro priated to itself. Setting aside the novel with its many varieties the historical novel, the novel of society high and low, the politi cal novel, the religious novel, and the rest, all of which may be regarded as in a great degree developments to be traced in their origin to the Elizabethan drama we have not only tragedies, melodramas, comedies of many kinds, farces, burlesques, extravaganzas, written for representation upon the stage, but we have also writings essentially dramatic but not intended for production at all such, for example as Shelley's "Prometheus, Landor's "Imaginary Conversations" and "Acts and Semes," and Mr. Browning's Dramatic Ly rics, which are, as he says, "though often lytic in expression, always dratuitio in prin ciple, being somany utterance of so many imaginary persons, not mine." It is true that our literature has not had an isolated development. Many ideas aud many forms of expression have come to us f r.jiu distant ages and from different countries. (Ireece, Italy, France, and Germany have all done something to modify our art, giving us new matter to assimilate, new methods to imitate, alien laws of criticism to am plify and determine our own. Examples are scarcely wanted to show how deeply the ever-increasing desire to understand and imi tate early or foreign modus of thought has inlhienced the writings of our modern Eng lish poets. Mr. Matthew Arnold, by insist ing on Greek ideas of beauty; Mr. liossetti, by directing our attention to early Itilian art; Mr. Swinburne, with his admiration for the poetry of Mr. Browning, who says: "open my heart anl you will see Graved Inside of It, 'Italy,' Such lovers old are 1 ami she ;" all of these have tended to increase, by the introduction of foreign elements, this de- I velopment of English poetry by differentia tion, and to lav the touniUtion tor a more rapid development of the samo in in the future. However we may attempt to account for it, tbe fact is obvious. The versatility which j astonishes us in the men of tho Kenaissanoe is no longer in the same sense and in the i same degree possible. Leonardo "a Vinci, ' who seemed in his age to be master of all arts and all sciences, could not in the nine- teenth century be a master in more than one ! or two. The modern poet, if he would be succestui, must ne content to oonnne nis energies within a comparatively limited field; he will listen with sympathy to the half-melHncholy, Lalf-exultitg words of Mr Browning: 1 shall neve', In the years remaining, I'sint you picture, no, nor carve yia a'atiis, Make you inuni; that anould all xpreu uic ; So It stems : 1 Hiaii'l on in atta'nmui. This, o; vera alone, uue lite it) lows lie-; Veise ami iiottiinir elue have I to givn ymi, tub it heights In other lives, (io. I willing. And be will be satisfied with the share that is given bim in the development of what in its tntirtty is so vast. If we turn now to the stnge. we fiud that the histrionic ! art has had a development far in ferior to 1 lint of the drama. Wo have indeed transformed the theatre itielf into Fomethipg very different from the rude building in which the plays of Shakespeare were nt first acted. Thero has been a great improvement in scenery, in dresses, in the wholo of tho paraphernalia of the stage. But in the acting we have made but little pro gress. Wo have perhaps got rid in some measure of the still declamation of earlier actors; wo expect that women shall under take the female po rts; but wo cannot bo said on the whole to have added miuh to what is expressed or implied in 'Hamlet's'' advice to tho players. Tho iul'erence is clear. Tho English drama has grown too wide to bear any longer throughout a direct reference to tho stage. Our best tragedies in which the poet inrcr-ets to us the most subtle and delicate phenomena of human nature are now either not written for the stage at all, or, if written for tho stage and produced upon it, aro in lnost cases coujplfcto failures. Our great p'ets have, as we have said, so specialized their energies that they must necessarily write only, or at any rate in the first place, for the few. 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THROUGH BILLS OF LADING (riven toall th.prln. oipal towns in Georgia, Alabama, Klnrida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arhansns, and Tennessee in connection with theOentrnl Railroad of Georgia. Atlantic and Gnlf Rail road, and Florida steamers, at a. low rate. a by oompotina lines. 8KMI-MONTHLY LINK TO WILMINGTON. N. O To. PIONF.K.R will tail for Wilmington on Tuesday, December 1.1. at 6 A. M. Retaining, will leave Wilmina- ton Saturday, Derembcr Ci). Ooonects witb tba Uape Fear River Steamboat Com. Rany, the vt ilmin, tin and Weldon and Nortb Garolina ailroads, and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad to all interior points. Freights for Colombia, 8. O., and Aaiusta, Oa., taken via W ilmingtnn, at as low rates as by any other roots. Insurance effected when req nested by shippers. Bills of lading signed at Uuecn street wharf on or before cbvy of sailinc WILLIAM L. JAMF.8, General Agent. 11 HoUU Jloutb THIRD Street. fSFTSt. nm LIVERPOOL AND QUEENS. SLyJH&iVroWN. Inman Line of Royal Mall btcHint rs are Appointed to sail as follows: City of 1'arln, Saturday, Dec. 17. at I P. M.' City of London, Saturday. Dec. 84. at 7 A. M. City of Cork, via liuilfax, Tuesday, Dec 27, at A.M. City of P.rooklyn, Saturday, Dec. 31, at 1 P. M. and each sncceeiilng Saturday and alternate Tues day, from pier No. 45 North river. RATES OF PASSAGE. Payable in gold. Payable in currency. First Cabin 78 Steerage 3 To Londwn 801 To Ixindon 38 To Paris 80 To Paris 38 To Halifax SO! To Halifax io Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, Bremen, etc., at reduced rates. Tickets can te bought here at moderate rates by persons wishing to send for tneir friends. For further Information apply at the company's office. JOHN G. DALE, A rent. No. 18 Broadway, N. Y.l Or to O'DONNELL & FAULK, Agents, 4 P No. 402 CHESNUT Street. Philadelphia. jpra PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND juSrJd3aS. AND NORFOLK 8TKAMSHIP LINK, THROUGH t HEIGHT AIR LINK TO TUB SOUTH A NT J V KHT INCREASED 1 A0ILITIK8 AND REDUCED RATES FOR 1B70. Steamers leave every WKDNK8DA Y and SATURDAY, at Id o'clock noon, from FIRST WUAUF abov. MAR. KKT Street. RKTIJKNING, leav. RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and BA. TURDAYS. . No Bills of Lading signed after U o'clock on sal Una ROUGH RATKS to all points in Nortb and Sooth Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and th. West, via Virginia and Tennessee Air Lin. and Richmond and Danville Ksilroad. Froiifht UANDLKD BITTONOF, and tak.n at LOWER RATKK THAN ANV OTHER LINE. No charge tor commission, drays s, or any .ipeni. of hteamshipa insnre at lowest rates. Freight received daily. bUt. Room ff t oo.. No. 13 8. WHARVF.Sand Pier 1 N. WHARVlfS. W. P. POKTFR, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. GROW HLI, A CO., Agents at Nortolk. li . NEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXAN iVJjs dria, Oeorgetown, und Washington smii4d. C, via Chesapeake and Delaware Cauai, with connections at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvllle, Nashville, Daltou, and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noon "rom the llrst wharf above Market street. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. CLYDE & CO., No. 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE & TVLBR, Agents at Georgetown; M, ELDRIDOE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. 6 1 m FOR NEW YORK, VIA DELAWARE ? Mr and K.irltan caual. a.a-' s W I FT S V R E TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DESPATCH AND SWJFTSURE LINES, Leaving daily at 12 M. and a P. M. Tlie steam propelfersof this company will com mi'in e loading on the 6th of March. Through In twenty-four hours. Ooods lurwsrded to any point free of commission Freights tuken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD &. CO., Agents, 4 No. Li8 South DELAWARE ivenue. , FOR NEW YORK, vl Delaware and Rarltan Canal. tfi'iSui& EXPRESS STEAM BOAT COMPANY. '1 lie steam Propellers of the Hue will commence loading on the Sth Ii, stunt, leaving dHliy as usual. THROUGH IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. Goods forwarded by all the lines going ont of Ne York, North, East, or West, free of commisaion. Freights reeeived at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO.. Agenta, No. Pi S. DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent, No. lis WALL Street, New York. S 45 iLa.WARE AND CHESAPBAK isteam. towboat company. l'.ariffs towed between Palladelnhia. Baltimore, Havie-de-Grace, Delaware City, and In termediate points. WILLIAM P. CLYDE CO., Agenta. Captain JOHN LAUGRLIN, Superintendent, oniee. No. l'i South Wlarvea vuijudelphla. 411 OORDAOE. ETO. WEAVER & CO., llOi'li nANIJFACTdKEUB AND SBIEK CIIAXILKU8, NO. S9 North WATER Street and No. as North WHARVES, Philadelphia, HOPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK PRICES. 41 CORDAGE. Manilla, Eiial and Tarred Cordaga At Lowsst Kw York Prioss and Ftsigfct IUW1M U. PITI.EIt 4c CO., Factory, TENTH St. and GKHMAN TOWN Avsnoa. Blors.No. Sia A. WATEB Bk and Si N DKLAWAB Ansaa JUaiSro PHILADELPHIA! SAXON GREEK NEVER FADES. 8 lem A LKXANDKK O. CATTELL CO. A. PRODUCE COMMISSION MKhCUANTtL No. M NORTH WHARVES AND NO. 91 NORTH WATBR STREET, PHILADELPHIA. AJLIXaKDlB G. CiniU. ELIJAH Cirri
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