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Within his magnetic brain are other cham bers, built to be opened to deeper medita tion, to be illuminated by still finer light. Only by celestial observations can terrestrial charts be constructed, says Jean Paul. In man there is an upper heavenly sphere; only by help of this can be instituted and conducted an orderly human life. Unguided, untempered by these nobler capacities, even the lower could not accomplish their specific functions. Here is the celestial canopy which gives amplitude and security to man's being. The vaulting sweep of disinterested feeling, open to men, constitutes their humanity, their divine hu manity. Without the breadth and freedom of this upper range, men were not men, but a herd of low-cropping bipeds. Take from a man his capacity to be just, to be Charitable, to bound up from the very depths of despair upon ever-surging waves of hope, to feel at times a thrill shoot through him from Infini tude, - cut him Off from all this, and you dis crown him, you disorb him. By no intellectual projection, by no scientific dexterity, can he be.
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Travels in Europe: its people and scenery, embracing graphic descriptions of the principal cities, buildings, scenery, and most notable people in England and the continent. George H. Calvert
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The Beautiful is one of the immortal themes. It cannot die it grows not Old. On the same day with the sun was beauty born, and its life runs parallel with the path of that great beau tifier. As a subject for exposition, it is at once easy and difficult: easy, from the affluence of its resources difficult, from the exactions which its own Spirit makes in the use of them.
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George Henry Calvert was an American essayist and poet. His works reveal the author in his most significant aspect, as a middle-states gentleman of distinguished family and independent means, a devoted American, who gave his life to literature and the translation of old-world culture to the new.
Background
George Henry Calvert was born on June 2, 1803; the eldest son of George Calvert, and was born on his father's estate, Riverdale, near Bladensburg, Md. His great-grandfather was the fifth Lord Baltimore, and his mother was Rosalie Eugenia Stier, daughter of a Belgian emigre who had settled temporarily in Maryland.
Education
George completed his education at Harvard (1819 - 23), and at eighteen was described by his father as "a very clever fellow a little spoiled by the ladies as he is thought by them very handsome".
Career
In the summer of 1823 Calvert sailed for England, under the care of Stratford Canning, the British Minister at Washington; visited at his uncle's chateau seven miles from Antwerp; and then settled in Gottingen--one of the earliest American students there--for fifteen months' work in history and philosophy. During the summer of 1825 he visited Weimar, saw the aged Goethe, and was welcomed in the society of the Weimar court. The next winter he was in Edinburgh, and during the following year he saw much of the best social life of Antwerp and Paris. Two years after his return from abroad he was married.
For some years, until August 18, 1836, he was an editor of the Baltimore American. Upon the marriage and establishment in charge of the family estate of his younger brother, Charles Benedict Calvert, he again went abroad, 1840-43, spending three days with Wordsworth, August 1-3, 1840, and later sojourning in Germany and Italy. On his return he established his home in Newport, Rhode Island, where, aside from travel, he spent his remaining years. For some time he was chairman of the Newport School Committee, and he was Democratic mayor of Newport, 1853-54. He was once more abroad in 1851-52. One who remembers him in old age describes him as living with his wife a retired life in his Newport home, "a rambling conglomeration of architecture in a setting of somber fir trees. "
Calvert's verse includes many lyric and narrative poems in a diluted Tennysonian strain, such as Cabiro, a Poem (1840), Anyta and Other Poems (1866), Ellen, a Poem for the Times (1867), Life, Death, and Other Poems (1882); two comedies laid in Renaissance Italy (Comedies, 1856), and the historical closet dramas in respectable blank verse: Count Julian, a Tragedy (1840); Arnold and Andre (1864); Mirabeau (1873); Maid of Orleans (1873); Brangomar (1883), a tragedy of Napoleon. In the seventies he published the critical, or in his phrase "biographic 'sthetic" studies, Goethe, His Life and Works (1872), Wordsworth (1878), Shakespeare (1879), Coleridge, Shelley and Goethe (1880). From time to time throughout his life he delivered public addresses on political, literary, and artistic themes, several of which were put in print. His mild interest in the theories of the French socialists Fourier and Godin appears in his Introduction to Social Science (1856). "Essentially a feeble and commonplace writer of poetry, although his prose compositions have a certain degree of merit"--this verdict of Poe on Calvert, though written in 1841 when Calvert had produced little, will apply without great modification to all his thirty-odd slender volumes of narrative and dramatic verse, travel, criticism, and translation. The prose works, as Poe says, are the better, and of these perhaps the best worth reopening to-day are his essay on manners, The Gentleman (1863), which went to three editions, his First Years in Europe (1866), and his second volume of Scenes and Thoughts in Europe (vol. I, 1845, vol. II, 1852), which gives an interesting account of the temper of Germany after 1848 and of France under Louis Napoleon.
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Politics
In 1853, Calvert was elected Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island, and served a term from October 1853 to June 1854.
Personality
He was "of great courtesy and dignity of manner, interested in spiritualism, tall, dark, gaunt, stooped, steeped in introspection, universally respected and beloved. "
Connections
On March 8, 1829 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. James Steuart of Baltimore.