Essays Chiefly Literary and Ethical Author:Aubrey De Vere General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Macmillan and co. Subjects: English poetry Church property Skepticism Ireland Literary Collections / Essays History / Europe / Ireland Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / Engli... more »sh, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Philosophy / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II ARCHBISHOP TRENCH'S POEMS Archbishop Trench, not long before his lamented death, published in two volumes a new edition of his poetical works l -- a welcome gift to many who had read in their youth, alike with delight and profit, the poems written by him in his youth, and a bequest which will be valued most by those who are attracted by the spiritual element in poetry, when it is in no degree divorced from human sympathies. His religious poetry is of an order special to himself, and among contemporary " Anglican " poets he will probably be one day regarded by many as the best. Certainly there was no other who combined with a devout spirit so much not generally included in the term religious poetry; none who penetrated into so sound a vein of philosophical thought, or who derived his themes from such varied sources. To the minor, but not unimportant graces of poetry, such as metricalperfection, the labours of an ecclesiastical career probably allowed him to pay less attention than he would otherwise have bestowed on them, though they did not prevent him from continuing to write poetry in his maturer years, and write not less ably than in earlier days. His literary career began when the age occupied itself in an unusual degree with religion; and it was its...« less