For this poet, a veritable child of Negro folk, gives expression to its spirit in need and language more akin to the ante-bellum 'spirituel' than any writer I know.
They are generally what the French call "spirituel," and often have rather desperate love-affairs which they keep very closely to themselves.
"spirituel" might mean; and in "The Princess" Mr. Tennyson has embodied the ideal of that nobler, wider, purer, yet equally fallacious, because equally unnatural, analogue, which we may meet too often up and down England now.
Pour bien juger de cela, il suffit d'écouter les choeurs du concert spirituel de Paris, & d'en comparer les dessus avec ceux de l'opéra.
Le 4eme rayon harmonie par le conflit, Beauté est une interface entre le spirituel et le matériel.