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Show 70 L.ike bel" ,roBe J to whieh her pen toot ".";-$e was sprinkle4 MOftlQnism '. 110$:& .,.t.ry an' prose, parisens' with prbm.m"$, w1d$lTrfbsctad s••s at'e unwise. poet !mag.". 56 II to have t0me !rcm th$ It laTa _, Gat•• ' literature, Most *rmon pen, however} $Ute com HoftllC)ta verI. sutfers from the $.n"8 ,10kness Am'eriean .-rans.lieU ,.etrey- of tnit peJ'iod lack of sharp natlitt'$lly" Mrs th. poett'1' of' Eliza. 11.•. Snow I as 'was {(Oman m.,. &. as most sing",,",$ong tendency ,and 9- eitie one !be int.riorit7 of most religieus verse is not diftioult to is 411(1 to 'bbe intrcduct.ion of tltxtraneous matt $:r int,o tbe works of art. In poetl'7, as in :PUftt1tlg, th. creative 1m _gmat-ion t,akes itrs material from this weldj, 'he wolQ of 'fime_ aad t'eoreates it 'by a process not oml,y 'Of e$nstruction but of 'irDst.lrea'tiCin ..... But 'When 'h.e creative emetion lthii:lh tiny.,s thttf1 a:rUs't to writ. or paint haJJpens to be e. religious oDe, he too t)ften tall' iato to mistake • • ot adding .methhg which is not his own. be incl\1de$ in t,he fabrlo of his fl_ world a l'lU'tIber of ct.taU.$ o depa$ 'Which e us·uitable. material tor:: al'fJ! artie\ie pUrpQ$$, .ithe-r beeau.se they are argumentative 01" a'bs17,,r.acrt., 01' historieal or thecretie&1, or beeaus. they belong to a Ute of which we bave 'at present ne taJdllar Or' generally explainJ .it • aceepted kaewle4,•• '7 MatteI' extrSJ3.eo.$ t. the work Qf an c.nahl1 ot Mrs.. Gates t poems, not all of wbleh ntre as, here, , some may have been 'bett,$r £1ectlon.s" is i ty to t7Pical 11;; andl only ot _et Mormon as these ];)Get,ry, sine it has _Pd, it earries .tl"Ontier conv.raten to Momonism; p'Nsent in fA -Ie- ha1 4l\tal aaet.ly evange.lical. in tbe dis much of the m&l'lT re,:roQuced 'because theJ'" were shoner. sin•• ; whU$ it is not, tastaf'lll $Ga$ Gt the lood W.S £ieq spirit ot a. L |
