{"id":"01KG8AN3TVNCV22CBPR51Z68Q7","cid":"bafkreiex44vzt4zfrz6dsprypaplk5q6nd7exs2iuum7lgccevh2fu7bde","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10953,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":10900,"text":"\r\nIn the earlier chapters of this volume, it has somewhere been passingly\r\nintimated, that Pierre was not only a reader of the poets and other fine\r\nwriters, but likewise--and what is a very different thing from the\r\nother--a thorough allegorical understander of them, a profound emotional\r\nsympathizer with them; in other words, Pierre himself possessed the\r\npoetic nature; in himself absolutely, though but latently and\r\nfloatingly, possessed every whit of the imaginative wealth which he so\r\nadmired, when by vast pains-takings, and all manner of unrecompensed\r\nagonies, systematized on the printed page. Not that as yet his young and\r\nimmature soul had been accosted by the Wonderful Mutes, and through the\r\nvast halls of Silent Truth, had been ushered into the full, secret,\r\neternally inviolable Sanhedrim, where the Poetic Magi discuss, in\r\nglorious gibberish, the Alpha and Omega of the Universe. But among the\r\nbeautiful imaginings of the second and third degree of poets, he freely\r\nand comprehendingly ranged.\r\n\r\nBut it still remains to be said, that Pierre himself had written many a\r\nfugitive thing, which had brought him, not only vast credit and\r\ncompliments from his more immediate acquaintances, but the less partial\r\napplauses of the always intelligent, and extremely discriminating\r\npublic. In short, Pierre had frequently done that, which many other boys\r\nhave done--published. Not in the imposing form of a book, but in the\r\nmore modest and becoming way of occasional contributions to magazines\r\nand other polite periodicals. His magnificent and victorious _debut_ had\r\nbeen made in that delightful love-sonnet, entitled \"The Tropical\r\nSummer.\" Not only the public had applauded his gemmed little sketches of\r\nthought and fancy, whether in poetry or prose; but the high and mighty\r\nCampbell clan of editors of all sorts had bestowed upon him those\r\ngenerous commendations, which, with one instantaneous glance, they had\r\nimmediately perceived was his due. They spoke in high terms of his\r\nsurprising command of language; they begged to express their wonder at\r\nhis euphonious construction of sentences; they regarded with reverence\r\nthe pervading symmetry of his general style. But transcending even this\r\nprofound insight into the deep merits of Pierre, they looked infinitely\r\nbeyond, and confessed their complete inability to restrain their\r\nunqualified admiration for the highly judicious smoothness and\r\ngenteelness of the sentiments and fancies expressed. \"This writer,\" said\r\none,--in an ungovernable burst of admiring fury--\"is characterized\r\nthroughout by Perfect Taste.\" Another, after endorsingly quoting that\r\nsapient, suppressed maxim of Dr. Goldsmith's, which asserts that\r\nwhatever is new is false, went on to apply it to the excellent\r\nproductions before him; concluding with this: \"He has translated the\r\nunruffled gentleman from the drawing-room into the general levee of\r\nletters; he never permits himself to astonish; is never betrayed into\r\nany thing coarse or new; as assured that whatever astonishes is vulgar,\r\nand whatever is new must be crude. Yes, it is the glory of this\r\nadmirable young author, that vulgarity and vigor--two inseparable\r\nadjuncts--are equally removed from him.\"\r\n\r\nA third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold\r\nand startling announcement--\"This writer is unquestionably a highly\r\nrespectable youth.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AKTMJF02D9WP2E5W9CEW1","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN3TVKGAJRHPYPT1CQRJG","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:59.227Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:26.610Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}