By the same Author.
LIVINGSTONE IN AFRICA.
Small 8vo, limp cloth extra, 2s. 6d.
"There are some striking passages of description."—Athenæum.
"We should say that if any one wants to imbue himself, as far as the medium of language will enable him to do so, with the moral and physical nature of this great unknown world, he can hardly do better than study Mr. Noel's poem."—Spectator.
"The poem throughout is of a high degree of excellence … is a worthy memorial of him who laid down his life to open up Africa."—Literary World.
"Without tumult, but with epic fulness, and definiteness of articulation and relief, and choice of what is most significant in incident or circumstance, the poem moves harmoniously to its close; what is to he noted in its own place being not so much the careful, comprehensive reading upon which this must have been built, as the manner in which it is subordinate to poetic spontaneity. Naturally the descriptions in detail, both of scene and incident, give scope to Mr. Noel's dramatic vigour and luxuriance of imagination. Certainly the purest, and perhaps the most brilliant of modern poetical colourists, he presents us in these transcripts of polymorphous African life with passages of tropical beauty, of tropical grandeur."—Scotsman.
"The book is beautifully written. Its descriptions glow with the sunshine of the tropics and the rich profusion of forest life. … Both for the conception and for the execution of this line poem Mr. Noel deserves high praise. He shows noble sympathy with the great thoughts and generous deeds of his hero, and sings of them in musical and melodious verse which it is pleasure to read. We hope that the book will circulate widely, and take the place it deserves in our lasting literature."—The Weekly Review.
"A fine, true effort of genius."—Dundee Advertiser.
"Mr. Noel has vividly realized all this, and has written a poem of undoubted strength; he has given voice to the thought and sentiment which Africa most powerfully stirs in the modern mind. … We have read the poem with delight, admiring the versatility and grace and dramatic skill which are everywhere apparent in it."—Nonconformist.
"Mr. Noel has attempted a bold thing in celebrating the career of the great traveller who was so recently laid to rest in Westminster Abbey; but we are bound to admit that he has in a large measure succeeded in rising to the dignity of his theme. … Almost every page contains beautiful touches of poetry. … Mr. Noel's excellence as a lyric poet has been already approved, and it is abundantly sustained by the several songs or lyrics scattered through this volume."—Echo.
"Mr. Noel has established his claim to be ranked among the few writers of real poetry in this country. … An honest, painstaking, loving work, warm with not a few sparks of poetic live."—Glasgow Herald.
"Anyone who knows 'The Vision of the Desert'—one of the most weird, solemn, and awe-inspiring pieces we have read for many a day. … All we can say is that his style both of thought and expression is large and grand, and that he has passages containing bursts of emotion, embodiments of ideal conception, pictures of actual facts and broodings of tender sentiment, which would not be unworthy poets of the first order."—Edinburgh Daily Review.
"We cannot pass by without a word for this fine contemporary epic. … Let us content ourselves with saying that the poem seems to us to possess some of the high elements of immortality."—School Board Chronicle.
"Our space will not permit us to linger longer over the many beauties of this epic poem."—Record.
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