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London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

yet it is not the only passion of the human
heart, nor the only sorrow which afflicts the
soul. The soul has higher aspirations than
earthly love ever dreams of ; has conflicts and
wrestlings ; has hours of darkness and of light
—the aptest and the noblest theme for a poet
with a spiritual eye to show forth to the grosser
vision of the world. Noile, indeed, can dispute
the occasional grandeur of Byron's verse ; its
force and flow ; its voluptuous passion ; its
gleams of light as of a spirit which had erred
from its course; but, at the same time, we must
confess that, besides its intellectual poverty and
its narrow unsympathetic character, Byron's
poetry, when it aims at passion, not seldom
sinks into mere bathos ; he too often and too
freely indulges in the grand and gloomy, until
at times his language more than borders on
the bombastic. His imagination did not seize
upon what was highest and noblest in the spirit
of the age, or even what was most charac-
teristic or nearest to its heart, but upon what
was diseased, and it revelled in the profa-
nation of the highest prerogatives of poetry.
We arc not speaking of Byron's character
as a man—perhaps as much sinned against
as sinning—but of the character of his poetry,
and who shall say that there is not a blight
upon it? The poet, like a tiger in his narrow
cage, walks to and fro in an unwholesome
frenzy. We watch with pain the monotony of
is movements ; we listen with impatience to
his perpetual wail, though every now and then
we are startled into admiration at the noble
rage of the magnificent and tortured beast.
If Tennyson is no Titan of Homeric force,
neither is he a mere polisher of beautiful peb-
bles in a crystal stream. The exquisite finish
and crystal clearness of his melodious verse
are but the outward and fitting expression of
his pure and delicate imagination. With the
loftiness of Wordsworth's imagination he com-
bines a more varied play of fancy. Like Words-
worth, he is familiar with nature in all its
moods. Byron delighted with what was grand,
or awful, or desolate in nature. Tennyson
shows a far deeper familiarity with its hidden
and subtle ways and its remoter influences.
It is this deeper communing which gives such
an inexpressible charm and beauty to so much
of Tennyson's poetry. His passionate yearn-
ings are for something higher and better than
the world, in spite of his intense sympathy
with its eager and onward life, can give him.
He loves " knowledge," and is proud of the,
progress of his age, but he longs for " wisdom.

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

This is the complaint of the earliest and
most passionate of his poems, " Locksleyr
Hall," and in one of his latest and most pro-
found, the same idea recurs. If Byron's ima'
gination was of the " earth earthy," TennY"
son's, did he know Heaven, did he see, that is
tr- the - 'eat s, -natural id - 'th the

A) say, „ grc _uper. wor
eye of faith as Dante did, or as, in our own dap
the author of the " Dream of Gerontius," 11.1$
imagination might have risen in a nobler and
higher flight than any he has yet compassed.
—JVestnvinstei• Gazette.

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