Outlines of English and American Literature; An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived: in large print
Outlines of English and American Literature; An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived: in large print
Excerpt: ...the indomitable spirit of all those restless explorers who dared unknown lands or seas to make wide the foundations of imperial England. It was a wonderful volume, and almost its first effect was to raise the hidden Tennyson to the foremost place in English letters. Whatever he wrote thereafter was sure of a wide reading. Critics, workingmen, scientists, reformers, theologians, -all recognized the power of the poet to give melodious expression to their thought or feeling. Yet he remained averse to everything ...
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Excerpt: ...the indomitable spirit of all those restless explorers who dared unknown lands or seas to make wide the foundations of imperial England. It was a wonderful volume, and almost its first effect was to raise the hidden Tennyson to the foremost place in English letters. Whatever he wrote thereafter was sure of a wide reading. Critics, workingmen, scientists, reformers, theologians, -all recognized the power of the poet to give melodious expression to their thought or feeling. Yet he remained averse to everything that savored of popularity, devoting himself as in earlier days to poetry alone. As a critic writes, "Tennyson never forgot that the poet's work was to convince the world of love and beauty; that he was born to do that work, and do it worthily." There are two poems which are especially significant in view of this steadfast purpose. The first is "Merlin and the Gleam," which reflects Tennyson's lifelong devotion to his art; the other is "Crossing the Bar," which was his farewell and hail to life when the end came in 1892. WORKS OF TENNYSON. There is a wide variety in Tennyson's work: legend, romance, battle song, nature, classic and medieval heroes, problems of society, questions of science, the answer of faith, -almost everything that could interest an alert Victorian mind found some expression in his poetry. It ranges in subject from a thrush song to a religious philosophy, in form from the simplest love lyric to the labored historical drama. Sidenote: TYPICAL SHORT POEMS Of the shorter poems of Tennyson there are a few which should be known to every student: first, because they are typical of the man who stands for modern English poetry; and second, because one is constantly meeting references to these poems in books or magazines or even newspapers. Among such representative poems are: "The Lotos-Eaters," a dream picture characterized by a beauty and verbal melody that recall Spenser's work; "Locksley Hall" and "Locksley Hall Sixty Years...
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