Excerpt from The Life and Times of Tennyson Professor Lounsbury's name, I suppose, is most closely associated by the public with his studies in Chaucer and Shakespeare. His literary taste, how ever, was singularly catholic. Pope and Dryden, for example, appealed to him strongly because of their pugnacity and the keenness of their satire. Their poems he knew intimately, and he often quoted pas sages from them in conversation, not always accu rately but rather by way of a paraphrase which gave new edge to an epigram. Of ...
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Excerpt from The Life and Times of Tennyson Professor Lounsbury's name, I suppose, is most closely associated by the public with his studies in Chaucer and Shakespeare. His literary taste, how ever, was singularly catholic. Pope and Dryden, for example, appealed to him strongly because of their pugnacity and the keenness of their satire. Their poems he knew intimately, and he often quoted pas sages from them in conversation, not always accu rately but rather by way of a paraphrase which gave new edge to an epigram. Of later poets the ones he read most were Byron, Browning, and Tennyson. From any one of the three, he would repeat, when in the mood for it, long stretches running to hundreds of verses. Among the poems of Tennyson which he sometimes recited were 'locksley Hall the 'ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, and parts of 'maud, ' 'the Princess, ' and 'in Memoriam.' Many of the quotations in this volume were first written out from memory. This admiration for Tennyson began in youth and continued through a long life. It was his habit when a schoolboy to clip from the newspaper any new production of the poet and paste it in a scrapbook, first, I daresay, committing the lines to memory; and the most notable essay that he wrote while in college was a defence of 'maud' against hostile criticism. Long afterwards, when the second 'locksley Hall' made its appearance, he contributed to 'the New Englander' a most illuminating contrast and compari son between this poem and the one of sixty years before bearing the same name. The last lectures which he gave at Yale, a decade ago, were on Tennyson and the poet's early contemporaries. Always, the man who had lived through the greater part of the Victorian era set himself squarely against the wave of cheap depreciation which at times threatened to overwhelm Tennyson. Though he admitted the poet's limitations, he insisted upon his greatness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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