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s~~elso poet OL .no recent era NO.
.-ne one Oh anotntr OF MS SompeuIs
-opioao44eeeLIye OF I4Ie 4IIo4ouy, W4auou.
s>>9o1on, OF oUAef petTCldI Phase Oh LuS
90, Due Oh the Tine ItacIl, WIN lLs-
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JunCLiUn.
eltnyson is one Of the best illusura
| tIoHS onaG our IICeraLure auorus Oh "a
| .ypAcdI poet OF me uIgneSL oruer: q
iiiaA VINO nVeS IN communion with
| "oIh hatuIe ana nlnan are, and de-
| 'oU@9 uIihoeI 70 the TASK OIL empOQy-
IhS me DeauCy mat ne sees IN them Ill,
ohe most perfect forms CnaC Ianguag.
WA anOfu MN; ana VINO also assume,
Tie iufLner ana quite oInerent task o.
interpreting, IN a DeaulIruI and SimDt.
| way tnaL ali can comprehend I'M.
IoeepeSL UnOuSht OF his CONTEMPORARIES
ana nImSelI upon the propIems ana
| mysteries OF our existence LIZ is a.
aucn poet, reveaIer OF the beaut,
Oh nature and life, and an lnterpreLel
oI the nODleSt thought and aspiration
OF MS age, That TennysOn will be SIND
led IN his lecture
he was born in 1909, in the little
Lincolnshire village OF Somershv n,
| Whlch his father was rector. His how
| Hood was quiet and simDie ono
harhed only by love OF nature and q,
| o' ne pegan very carry to write
| 1850 @nu DIT the age OF seventeen
puphshed in conjunction with b,~
| brother Charles a little yo,nno
tnem, called Poems by Two Rro+b-
erS. Two years later he entered Cam
piIuSe. Inere ne formed friendships
1n''C Influenced his whole life. He also
oonllAueu 10 write, producing a
remarkable poem (remarkapIe for
MS age) which gained a univer-
SHY prize. While sui at Camhrides
ne puDllshed another volume. tins
tiihe alone (lS3O, at the age of Pr. II
ooh Called many OF the minor nieces
va slano hrst IN the present editions |
OF the complete works. Two veors
ldter d group of poems like "Oenone,,
ana "A Dream Of Fair Women" an
peareo, and his reputation was estah-
l!shed among readers OF discrimina
ton. h''-
After leaving Cambridge Tennvson
devoted nearly ten years to pafient
study of his art. At the beginning of
IIlS period he lost his friend, Arthur
1aIian, IN whose memory he after
wards wrote In Memoriam" At the
ciose OF the period he published. as
the outcome OF his long silence, some
Ihlrty new poems, among them .sThe
Two Voices" ''Morte d. Arthur ;,
Dora and 'Locksley Halr' 0S42 at
the age of S3). He was now recog-
nlzed as the peer Of the great poets of
lhe carrier part of the century
mere was another period of silence
ana then Tin 1S4O ''The Princess" an
peared. A little later, after seventeen
ears OF slow growth, 'In Memoriam"
was was gwen to the world QS5O). At
toout tine same time Tennyson mar =
=, ieu ana before the close of the year .
lie was appointed Poet Laureate
In 1855 MAUD" was published II
vas received with disfavor, in conse.
luence OF misunderstanding. A few
ears later four of the "Idylls of the n
King appeared QS59). They attained
Immediate and lasting popuIaritv a
'tners OF the series followed. at longer p
T shorter intervals, until they grad
ally grew into a rounded epic.
AL the age of sixty-six Tennyson Il
ompieted MS first drama, Queen G.
larry (1S75). During the seventeen G
ears that remained to him he pro- ia
uced six other plays, some of which ps
ere successful on the stage. These nj
oWever, were not the most important bt
ork of this last period. That is to be m
,und rather In a certain group Of less Ia
~ bilious poems. He had largely re- in
aimed heretofore from dealing in his fu
oetry with the especial problems of m
lie age, except in 1.-The Princess" w
ut now he began to treat them, di- III
9sting them Of whatever was tenn to
'rary or accidental, and lifting them on
to the region of eternal truth and tn
'9I1tv 6ninp ho | en-
ntributions to the tho1e-ht of his aft
me. as we'll as To the WORLDS store all
pure poetry de
In 1884 TSSnyson was raised to the en-
erage, as Baron of Aldworth and =
'eshwater. His 2death occurred in =
90. He was buried in Westminster l
'bey, in the Poets Corner. III
SUBJECT FOR ESSAYS AND Ill
CLASS.
Il. Compare the two ''Locksley |
alls." Do you conclude from the
mparlson that Tennyson's convic-
ms and his hopes for mankind
anged materially between youth
d old age?
2. For more than sixty years he +
ed close to the present life of Eng II
Id, as far as he was capable of COM
ehendlng and sympathizing with its AZ
''emehlS: and he lnwove what helm
t concerning it into his poetry.'-iA
nat were the movements, Judging -
IN your acquaintance with his writ
IS, that Tennyson comprehended g
d sought to forward. and what were sE
J problems and tendencies of the yE1
esent time with which he was nm u
e to sympathize? Designate in i
cry case the poem or poems from s
ich you draw your conclusions. y
3. Compare Tennyson, as regards
beauty of his verse, with any other
It whom you know well, noting es- Ma!