As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real
body, and in the pleasure of things, they possess the superiority of
genuineness over all fiction and romance. As they emit themselves,
facts are shower'd over with light--the daylight is lit with more
volatile light--the deep between the setting and rising sun goes
deeper many fold. Each precise object or condition or combination or
process exhibits a beauty--the multiplication table its--old age its
--the carpenter's trade its--the grand opera its--the huge-hull'd
clean-shap'd New York clipper at sea under steam or full sail gleams
with unmatch'd beauty--the American circles and large harmonies of
government gleam with theirs--and the commonest definite intentions
and actions with theirs. The poets of the kosmos advance through all
interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first
principles. They are of use--they dissolve poverty from its need, and
riches from its conceit. You large proprietor, they say, shall not
realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library
is not he who holds a legal title to it, having bought and paid for
it. Any one and every one is owner of the library, (indeed he or she
alone is owner,) who can read the same through all the varieties of
tongues and subjects and styles, and in whom they enter with ease, and
make supple and powerful and rich and large.
These American States, strong and healthy and accomplish'd, shall
receive no pleasure from violations of natural models, and must not
permit them.
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