Synopsis
New And Old by Walter Channing. New And Old is a nineteenth?century poetry collection that blends narrative ballads, sonnets, and miscellaneous verse with reflective prose. The volume surveys themes of love, memory, virtue, social conscience, and human duty, weaving personal elegy with social commentary. Prominent pieces include Lucy, a Ballad, and a sequence of poems and sketches that wander from domestic affection to journeys through England and Scotland. Interspersed with the poetry are notes and occasional verses that address reform, capital punishment, poverty, and the moral responsibilities of public life, presenting portraits of the statesman, the farmer, the mother and child, the lighthouse keeper, and other everyday figures as exempla of character and virtue. The collection is marked by a humane, contemplative voice, with an emphasis on sympathy, benevolence, and the cultivation of the mind and soul through literature, history, and nature. It stands as a thoughtful, reform-minded meditation on private life and civic duty.
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