...beyond, amid, or underneath the "crash" and the "clatter" there is no vibratory soul-music. And yet — "Now, it is not one thing nor another alone Makes...whole, The before unconceived, unconceivable soul." When the critic in the next line intimates that this "something pervading, uniting the whole" may be...

...In the worst of his poems are mines of rich matter, But thrown in a heap with a crash and a clatter; Now it is not one thing nor another alone Makes a poem, but rather the general tone, 15 The something pervading, uniting the whole, The before unconceived, unconceivable soul, So that...

...In the worst of his poems are mines of rich matter, But thrown in a heap with a crush and a clatter; Now it is not one thing nor another alone Makes a...clapt hodge-podge together, they don't make a tree. "But to come back to Emerson (whom, by the way, I believe we left waiting) —his is, we may say, A...

...clearness by AW Schlegel, Coleridge, and Emerson. Emerson himself he attacks for violating the law of life: Roots, wood, bark, and leaves singly perfect may be,...clapt hodge-podge together, they don't make a tree. One of Lowell's most explicit statements of the contrast is the following passage, written quite in...

...our point, we cannot resist quoting Lowell's: "Now It is not one thing nor another alone, Makes the poem but rather the general tone, The something pervading uniting the whole. The before unconcelved, unconceivable soul." A History of Architecture, it seems to us, should have a great deal...