This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... lessons out for men in scores and hundreds of his lines. He has in truth so interwoven the thought and language of Scripture in his poems, that much of it could be recovered from his pages if the original were lost Tennyson is only second to Browning in his use of the Bible. Dr. van Dyke's estimate of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... lessons out for men in scores and hundreds of his lines. He has in truth so interwoven the thought and language of Scripture in his poems, that much of it could be recovered from his pages if the original were lost Tennyson is only second to Browning in his use of the Bible. Dr. van Dyke's estimate of four hundred or more Biblical allusions in Tennyson is far too low. He is less given than Browning to quotation and paraphrase: nevertheless he is quite as much in the atmosphere of the Book. Some of his poems are profoundly Biblical in their tone. This is especially true of "In Memoriam" and the "Idylls." He is here moving on Biblical ground, and dealing with Biblical themes. Tennyson is acutely sensitive to the charm and cadence of the Scripture, and we can often detect its music in his lines. In him too we find, as in Browning, the expression in poetic form of our great human experiences, our spiritual fears and problems, together with the affirmation of Christian thinking upon subjects of the soul's life and destiny. As we shall see later, he deals constantly with such subjects as faith, immortality, prayer and sin. Tennyson turned to the Bible naturally: he felt the spell of its poetry. But more than this, he felt the reality of its touch upon life and its problems, and therefore he did not fear to carry over into his poems the ideals of the Bible. Not a few of his poems thus have their origin directly in the Bible. As Mr. Chapman tells us--" 'The Two Voices' and 'St. Simeon Stylites' are admirable paraphrases in modern language of the old cry of St. Paul conscious of the war in his members.. 'The Vision of Sin is a replica of the Scriptural 'mystery of iniquity.' 'Aylmer's Field, ' 'Locksley Hall/ and 'Maud' all remind us of the...
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