The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-08-16
.OND ALFRED TENNisoN


of this poem. tin. poet was obliged to wait
for a reputation till he had written poem,
today scarcely ineligible in all its parts Ia.
many of his admirers who have long been ia-
miliar with it. l'ut it at once gained Tenny-
son recognition as II poet. There are many
elements in it To accomplish such a result,
Whatever he touched he trnnslignr.t Who
but Tennyson could describe a vision Of fly
ing machines in such beautiful language as
this:
For dipt into the future. far as human eye could
Saw the vision of the world, and all the Wonder
that wunu be.
Saw the heavens fill with commerce., arsosies Of
magic suils,
Pilots Of the purple twilight, dropping, down with
costly wells;
Heard the heavens ill with shouting. and there
raned CHASTITY dew
From the nations airy navies graphing in the
central blue.
Far along the world wide whisper Of the south
wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples Ilnnsing
through the thunder storm
All this, stated in common parlaucc, means
that tho poet looked forward to n time when
naval fights might take place among tho
clouds. But those articles, SO tiresoue to
their mechanism-modern flying machines
are made poetic under the name of cargo
sizes Of magic sails" and there is something
splendid in "the standards of the peoples
punging through the thunder Storm"
The feeling and passion everywhere pres
ent through the poem are accounted for i'll
the fact that Tennyson was telling his own
story When he was promising young
poet crowned with Oxford's academic laurels
he wooed his first cousin, the story Of which
wooiug he afterwards wove into beautiful
verse and gave to the world, Another suitor,
the wealthy heir to the earldom of Boyne,
however, appeared on the scene and the fair
Amy, afterwards so literally adjecti. cd as
"fase and scrvile," became peeress.
Lord Boyne, who is the owner of large es
tates and valuable coal mines i'll the county
Of Durham, the heart of the northern coal
fields of England, freely extended his hospi-
tality to the brides cousin at Brancepcth
castle Il modern but imposing mansion. The
poet repaid the kindness by satirzing the
good natured peer, his brand now title and
his recently acquired wealth most mercilessly
in MAUD" and "Locksley Hail." lndepcnd-
eut of his wife's very natural indignation,
Lord Boyne was not gratified to find his
beautiful home described by a recent guest
as s'sewgaw' castle, or at having the world
informed Ill VERSE; hoHeFel lltilLAolllolls, t'4itt
his wealth had come from the sweat of mi
ners; neither did he enjoy the.thought that
the tongues of the world were wagsing over
the story Of his money '.aving bought him
| wife vino preferred another lover.
In the year 1851 Iennyson was married to
Miss Emily sellwood, and III the same year
succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate
and he produced on the day OF the iu-
neral OF the Duke OF Wellington, IN No
vember, 1852 ms lmmoftai ode. Inc
| Crimean war exerted depressing elect on
| the sensitive genus, during which time
"Mauda appeared. After silence OF sew
eral years the first series OF 'ldylls OF the
King" embracing four stories III blank verse
drawn from the Arthurlan legends, restored
the poets waning popularity, and was gen
orally accepted as his greatest poetical effort,
averdct confirmed ten years later, when the
cycle was completed by the publication Of
'The Holy Grail and Other Poems" us6s). In
the interval between the publication OF the
second parts of his "ldylls" Iernyson had
issued "Enoch Arden" lle6A. lie has since
then published 1.-THE Widow, or the Songs
of the Wrens' ls7O), Queen MARY