ABSTRACT
As the Tyrian flies the Greek, so the Scholar is told to fly the society of nineteenth-century Europe existing within the tradition inaugurated by Greece and Rome. The Scholar is a young man of originality and brilliance, who, in a mood of dissatisfaction with the prospects offered him, leaves Oxford in comparative immaturity to join the Gipsies. Both the Scholar himself and the culture with which the poet contrasts him are shown as awaiting the revelation. But there is a distinction. The Scholar himself may be supposed to fear especially the shepherds, whom he occasionally meets, but avoids, and who are always trying to catch him. The Scholar Gipsy is a perfect example of the way in which such elusive truths as it handles should be projected through a poetic organization. They may, indeed, be truths beyond the personal thinking of the poet himself.
