Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
gyYSoy Is NO MORE,
|paetand Peer Passes Away
at a l. pc Old
Age
ofshe Life anlW fittings
] OF England's Greatest
Poet.

OF England's Greatest
Poet.
"a Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate
.ncland. died at his home in
lcn on Wednesday at l.O p. m.
hath was quiet and peaceful.
probable thar no poet in cur
he has ever given such coneen-
attention to the literary finish
poems as Tennys0n. With an
keat supernatural command Of
!. and the right worGs for the
bon, he vet rewrote his verse
leutly. Its aud quality
exquisite. generally, rs the
hes Of a masters brush upon his
s..
poems the Laureate wrote
q the last decade are Inferior tn
brmer work. His Serses upon
va marriages. are notably weak;
be world fergives all thisand his
re as adramatist, because OF the
verse which, during f0rty-fye
at least, radiated from his
sous braia.
red T5nnySOn was born in
Drsby, Lincolnshire, Eng, in 1s09.
hther, The Rev. George Clayton
bison, was the rector o~fSOmersby
bear Of Remington and Grimsby
his mother was the daughter
I Rev Stephen Fytche, vicar OF
Hi was the third Of a family
relre children. The talent
gained for him the title Of
|~lzur,ate Of England began TO
itself in his early youth. for
eighteen years old he, with his
her Charles, who afterward
be vicar Of Grassy and assumed
"a me Of Turner. published a
volume entitled Poems by Two
hers.r The poems attracted
Intention, those signed ~. t.
Fing tie highest praise. c der
declaring that they alneO Of the
ions in the volume gave hopeful
be of . coming poet.
eaflis. traiaing Of Alfred AMI
Is was assumed by the father.
Alfred vas sent TO Trinity
e, Cambridge; here in 1923 he
VNfded the ChancellOr's medal
E poem in blank verse entitled
sbuctoo- A year later he pub
his first volume OF poems.
Ana was the only famous
In this volume. but in a revised
psarged edition Issued in 1893
2oand the -May Queen, the
sEater,"Tke Lady of Shalott,-
fhers that are still well known.
1is volume attracted compare
little attention and nothing
Might've bits from his pen
lred until 1872 when he pub-
English Idyls and Other
He preserved in this new
pc all that be cared to have live
lseforts Ia earlier publications
|Hciuded in them some OF the
which gave him place in the
fank OF living poets, notably
Da.y Dream "LOcksleyis HALF
Mort d'Arthur." One Of the
seat efforts was The Princess.
Hey in blank verse, with its
eths proper sphere Of women.
net In l3i7. In 1850 there
lred anonymously what was
foiy the purest and truest poem
period, Tennyson's "In
0fiams' a series Of I29 brief
ali wrought together in grand
nc tribute to the memory Of the
college friend and companion,
y Hallam- HalIam was a son
aiiam the historian, and was
go 70 marry Tennyson's sister,
not known generally until
years alter. For seventeen
iennyson had borne the sacred
his friends death, during
ne composed the elegies con-
10 the volume In Memoriam.H
nDer 20, 1850, TennysOn was
,niea to the honorary place Of
-aieate OF England, succeeding
worth or the poems written
capacity there have been few
1se been considered by critics
mat are to take rank with
~ MS poems, notably the "Ode
Death Of the Duke OfoweIling-
kDd the charge Of the Light
at Balaklaya." Both Of
~efe included in his volume
Maud and Cther Poems"
nee In 1866. .'Maud- was
{ as being so anomalous,
"a narrative treatment and
eonstructiOn, that critics
aaers were widely at variance
ning IL" Whatever adverse
"a might have been evoked
4Aad was lest sight Of and
3sn through the universally
nea "ldys Of the King four
blank verse published in
ahsse works did not include all
rtions for those years. In
poem which hassiace become
y the wholeof Christendonl,
Arden was published. along
p'ner compositions. "Enoch
met with a wide popularity,
,he rts suit Of the peculiarly
as from its literary merit.
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