{"product_id":"wanderings-on-parnassus-poems","title":"Wanderings on Parnassus: Poems","description":"viii, 228 pp. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers. Excerpted from his obituary in Evening News, Buffalo NY, Tue. 10 Jun 1890: \"Dr. Hartzell delivered the centennial address of the Universalist denomination at Boston in 1870 and the oration of the centenary of American Independence at Alstead, N.H., July 4, 1876. He was located 14 years in Buffalo as pastor of the Church of the Messiah, which he built... He will be remembered as among the most prominent and active of the patriots and orators of Western New York in serving the cause of the Union at the time of the rebellion. With his passionate and sweeping eloquence he aroused the people to the highest pitch of patriotism and duty. He preached in Buffalo a sermon upon the assassination of President Lincoln... Dr. Hartzell was the orator on the occasion of the unveiling of the Wadsworth monument at Springfield in 1879, erected in honor of Captain John Wadsworth, noted in the colonial history of Connecticut for the part he took to preserve the Charter. A few years before, Dr. Hartzell delivered an oration before the assembled Commanderies of Louisiana at New Orleans, which was published and highly regarded in England as well as America, and he was also chosen to deliver the oration to commemorate the American victory at the battle of New Orleans on the site of the battlefield. As a writer Dr. Hartzell was graphic, poetic and startling, showing great power of analysis, and that he was a student of nature as well as philosophy. He had a subtle magnetic spirituality and touching pathos peculiarly his own. His diction was elegant, sparkling with classic gems and brilliant climaxes. As a thinker he entertained advanced liberal views. He was no dogmatist, and his rich, scholarly culture was limited by no petty lines, and with a scorn for everything artificial and mean, his great soul ignoring the paltry trappings of pretense, ecclesiastical or secular, his heart throbbed in sympathy with all humanity. His genius was above any sect or people. No denomination can claim him alone, more than it can Beecher or Chapin, or the silver-tongued Starr King, whose friend he was, as he was Chapin's, too. He combined the highest qualities of the orator. He was electrical and impassioned, his utterance growing into a perfect torrent of flashing inspiration. He united to the purest rhetoric the most solid logic, and with his warm soul, electric powers, brilliant fancy and powerful intellect, his thoughts glowed with white heat, and his eloquence was thrilling and irresistible. When the lecture platform exercised a legitimate function in this country, and commanded the best thought and talent of America, Hazard Hartzell stood with great applause upon many platforms in the land, and by his scholarship and brilliancy won a position that placed him beside Wendell Phillips, the father of the system. As a student of nature, in her highest teachings, and at all times a lover of humanity, Hazard Hartzell will be regarded as having voiced in his poetry the noblest aspirations of the heart with poetic genius. And as time goes on we will see many of those flowers he has plucked from Parnassus striking their roots deeper into the soil in the garden of American literature, growing in beauty and in fragrance, and enriching the world.\"","brand":"Thomas Whittaker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43592645181510,"sku":"2350284","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2350284.jpg?v=1753553101","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/wanderings-on-parnassus-poems","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}