New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-03
rENNYsoN AND BROWNING


Last evening Dr. Holmes delivered the concluding Ice
ture Of hs course before tho Mercantile Library As.oca
on at HOPE Chapel The lecture room was crowded WIN
Fashionable audience who received the lecturer ".th
fprlauge lie said have brought with me two lectures
Intending To take enough from both together - M the
hour ard very little more The poets whom nave hSre
oore mentioned are dead but the world ~ mover tired Of
listening 10 her last poet The subject OF tins evening
lecture Is Alfred TennysOn, the poet laureate OF I'm
gland. AID Robert Browning. Iennyson - ia'orue
with many, and with good reason lis j. inc poetry
of the drawing room and boudoir u seems to ignore
The masses Tennyson should be shy, proud
inan, who loves rather than likes Ms race Inc
first thing In his poetry that strikes the reader IS the
exquisite s0Des OF the rythm the next the richness ana
msssiveness Of bis dcti9n the last Characterize akin to
that described Is his immense concentration OF meaning
Ills ,ictures are a. sold If they done in OIL 10
may wen he supposed that such VIII "ll nave many
rossacCs capable Of beng Isolated a. single crystal
would take examples but the trulh - lehht son Ps14'
are made I'D of beauties. OF the interior Qualities 81 ms
ccnrosiioIs may mention subtued All melancholy pa
hos and extreme lrxurance ot fancy, a. shown IN lus
Pruces in which piece also his Inventive powers ere
6erloved Tennvsonhas dreadful way Of limiting things
In Ibis link lie even exceeds Colerdse, as Ia Marian
ma The Gardener Dau-hi has some o. INC "a '.l
beautiful Ictures 10 found N the works Of any poet
Palma gives his highest reach OF pa'.onI
evidently not his j0rfs. q" Ia Mmon'" .h2nid
lie read in urivnte and allowed 10 steal into
he srl f,r tender and abiding love diversity Of FORM aud
nifty If sentiment have seen nothing Ike II ~ eie7i-
,erse; neither Shelley nor Wordsworth has, 70 my mnd
raised such monument to me iisna5 my ~,
unay zng Ieruyson, tho most difficult ana interesting
mn of tic problem TO determine the relation his poems
bear to hc wants and tendencies Of the time lie shiihk
from common hing, aud loves 70 move am stasy %
ec and nura "a courtiy tastes and out Of this domain
nothing bring him except touch OF sentiment lhe
scrfon placed OF The garden 81 .ls Tarics might be
Yioced oyer his reefns-" Nobody viii blouse OF bun
idle allowed TO enter Il only 40 Intervals 'hAi We
know in him tie tendency Of lie iinoi rs cary
roers belong TO no time nor pi1coi and whom nc
axrr,fsss love Of freedom. i seems 10 be rHiher
the old freedom then The new. iennyson ,eem' 10 P~
take IN vogue way, Of tho .pfH % n'Po " -,
time without any specific aim Of his own These views OF
Linn agree with what known Of his chareclcr no AVOIDS
general society nnd prefcr solitude 10 ~ In hs H'yo rs
10 that 81 Shelley and Keats the 1rcck inhuei,o -
,lnille-il oy meht be clnSscd az an Anglo iislome
School khlisiofo shows hmaof IL most ol mo Engn,h
Poets 81 iuns n1vo east oinotimoa no "pp"ais III
1unnyson' oe'cule rhr",ea ig,.e' ln ' u ~, na
u clements ct popular puul hia true prh'n ' ma W
vLih tho itweisd hand 81 ioyaii, he's raised hh iH'
estimation la ulih tennya"a held Ia thia e'"n'ii a'"'
toi ibrta IL en- ntpes si,aum 1t Ito heinz formed hele
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