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Orion: An Epic English Poem
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144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1854
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July 30, 2022
3.5⭐
Horne's epic poem covers the Greek mythology of Orion's life mainly focusing on three of his love interests which depict the Goddess Artemis, Princess Merope and the Goddess Eos ending with his death at the hand of Artemis.
In Edgar A. Poe's critically pretty favorable review of Orion by R. H. Horne, in Graham’s Magazine, 1844, Poe argues here that Horne (1806–1870) was infected with “the customary cant of the day — the cant of the muddle-pates who dishonor a profound and ennobling philosophy by styling themselves transcendentalists.” According to Poe, Horne’s fashionable error was to conceive of his poem as an “experiment upon the mind of a nation.” Rather than trying to argue for particular ideas or causes, Poe reminds Horne, as he frequently reminded Longfellow, “that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem's sake."
Horne's epic poem covers the Greek mythology of Orion's life mainly focusing on three of his love interests which depict the Goddess Artemis, Princess Merope and the Goddess Eos ending with his death at the hand of Artemis.
In Edgar A. Poe's critically pretty favorable review of Orion by R. H. Horne, in Graham’s Magazine, 1844, Poe argues here that Horne (1806–1870) was infected with “the customary cant of the day — the cant of the muddle-pates who dishonor a profound and ennobling philosophy by styling themselves transcendentalists.” According to Poe, Horne’s fashionable error was to conceive of his poem as an “experiment upon the mind of a nation.” Rather than trying to argue for particular ideas or causes, Poe reminds Horne, as he frequently reminded Longfellow, “that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem's sake."
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