THE SOUTH BEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 1, 1833. 



No. 9.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. II. 



PROPOSED MONUMENT TO CARRINGTON. 



As our frontispiece for this month, we give a view 

 of Mr. Wightwick's proposed monument, to testify 

 the estimation in which the virtues and genius of the 

 late Mr. Carrington were held by his surviving cotem- 

 poraries. That his poetical fame will thrive with 

 posterity, there is not the shadow of a doubt. The 

 monument, therefore, would be erected to commemorate 

 not the bare fact of such a man having lived and 

 written verse but the more unusual truth, that he had 

 readers of his own day, who could judge for them- 

 selves, and pronounce their poet's eulogy. 



It will be observed, that the structure will resemble 

 a Cromlech; that form being adopted, because the 

 Bard's favorite theme was still, the 



" Land of the Logan and the Cromlech. " 

 But, it may be asked, why chisel away the rugged 

 character of its prototype, and shew it "neat and 

 trimly dressed " as Cromlech never was ? — It is hoped 

 a satisfactory answer will be found in the remark, that 

 Carrington was not an antiquarian ; and that he chiefly 

 sang not of deeds Druidical, nor of Cromlechs, but 

 of the " land " with which such things were familiar. 

 Though he loved Nature and Art in their most rugged 

 forms, he had a corresponding degree of feeling for the 

 mild and equable beauties of the one, and for refine- 

 ment of taste in' the other. To a Dartmoor bard of 

 rude imagination, or to a professor of Druidical antiqui- 

 ty, we might with propriety erect an unsophisticated 

 Cromlech. To one of cultivated mind and modern 

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