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| | BAYARD TAYLOR - LoveToKnow Article on BAYARD TAYLOR |
 | | The young poet spent a happy time in roaming through certain districts of England, France, Gerlnany and Italy; that he was a born traveller is evident from the fact that this pedestrian tour of almost two years cost him only 100. |
 | | Taylors most ambitious productions in poetryhis Masque of the Gods (Boston, 1872), Prince Deukalion; a lyrical drama (Boston, 1878), The Picture of St John (Boston, 1866), Lars; a Pastoral of Norway (Boston, 1873), and The Prophet; a tragedy (Boston, 1874)are marred by a ceaseless effort to overstrain his power. |
 | | Taylor felt, in all truth, the torment and the ecstasy of verse ; but, as a critical friend has written of him, his nature was so ardent, so full-blooded, that slight and common sensations intoxicated him, and he estimated their effect, and his power to transmit it to others, beyond the true value. |
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