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Excerpt from Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers
Lionel Johnson belonged to an English literary group of meteoric brilliancy, over many of whom hung a singularly tragic fate. In the matter of art, his, the most reticent and the most sensitive expres sion among them, was also, beyond all doubt, the soundest and the most robust. Mr. Yeats, his fellow worker, alludes to the loneliness and gravity of his mind, its air of high lineage. This is an accurate observation. The young critic's every utterance is remarkable for its individual native balance; its fear lessness; its patience and courtesy under stress its unfailing mental hospitality; its sweet old-fashioned scholarship, full of ease and pleasantness, and quiet mirth; for what he himself calls in another an almost Latin clearness and weight: the charming, arresting word of one who lives chie?y in the spirit. Above the fogs of human prejudice, with the best that has been thought and said in the world. He was a very great loss to a hurried generation which did not fail altogether to appreciate him.
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