The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20

At a meeting of the Music Study club Thursday morning an interesting program was rendered, the subject be- ing Gilbert Sullivan. Tennyson and Burns Jones.
 One of the most interesting features Of the program was magnificent paper on the three composers beauti- fully presented by Mrs. F. w. Ander son. The following is part of the correlation as given by Mrs. Anderson
 In comparing the lines of these artists: Alfred Tennyson, Burns-Jones and Arthur Sullivan. it is difficult to find parallel pointsAtheir lines were widely different-however, they lived at the same time, although Tennyson was several years older than the other two artists. they were friends and were all given the highest honor their. coun- try could hestow on an artist that of Icing knightei. And they were all English and beloved to the Victorian period.
 One of the outstanding points in the works of TenmySon is his absolute be- lief Tn immortality. Many of his poems ring witt, this theme. it is most pro noun"ed in In Mrmorium." Break. Break Break. and Crossing the Bar
 Sullivan brings out this point in his song Onward. Christian Soldiers"
 Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar" at S1. and he requested that it should come at the end of all volumes of his poems and all programs where his poems were read.
 IL was while he wns still student that he met Arthur Hallam. who bee came his roommate. his dearest and Il oSt intimate friend. IL was through tho Io.th nf his ftienJ hi, Iifo ,,,,I writings Gecame purified and saved from orerSwectneSs and sentimental ity. It Was du.ing his period of sUf- fering following this sudden death that his writings took on a tone that smacked ot genuinely deep feeling. coupled with him natural genius and his purity of soul.
 He wrote "Thp Lady of Shallott" at 20. Tennyson is unqucstonaLly one of the greatest poets of all times Others may produce in the soul mirror lines more intense. more deeply tingpd with the crimson of passion or the ashen7g"ay of despair. others .aay evoke stranger contrasts and more widely varied statcs of thought and feeiiug. but none wins from the souls reflec- tions more harmonious. more delicate, more spiritual
 Tn MemOrium," for example. is an other Pig inns Progress in it's reflec- tiGG of though and moods, common to all who have wandered ir the wilder ness of doubt and sorrow. One resent ment. one scepticism. ons love. one longing, one hope. he has cit them all and confessed them all. But he does not lead Us aStlay in this forest whence ! eeiet has led him-and how beautiful its IS with it's cen sla owS. ana it's g'immerin.s of li2St from above and it's fiuwery paths which only poets can find. Nor does he leave us there. for he Is q pilgrim, like ourselves, and he leods uS and shows up e"ery step of the way that we shall not be lost again leads us ana helps Us, until at last we emerge again into the clear sun light of faith. Some critics say that ! In Memorum" stands out as the most '..ast. ous poem of tlS century. -.is who have loved and lost have experienced the emotions Of this poem. 0nd in all else he has left to us there is the same quality of self revelation his poetry contains the his.ofy of his own healt and mind, yet ever yelled beneath the reticence of pure art
 But though many of his canvaSSes are. large and the figures upon them cpIC Ill SIdHueNF, II IS Hol ilotle lS the poet laureate of q mighty nation that we look and admire hiM For inst as tEert are often exquisite messo-tintS niingleti with nie prInuoy, or po>ltlyr colors in 5 eat paintings. so in his poems there ate delieute nlanres of thought and sentiment which core spond to all our most pc Sma moods and faAcieS.
 When TennAson was II years old Bueue-JoneS was born. His mother died at his bir,h. His father had Il strong desire to see his ,dIn Il clergy ! man in the "church nf e,nglamd" s1 fortunately for him he va" sent to Ok ford. Whe.e heW worlds opened up Lu him. l. Was there that he met Will liam Morris the poet. and the face of things suddenly changed phis was the beginning of q life-long friendship. To gether t!ley read RllSi; n'> Modern Painters, andsthe "idyIiS of the K ing. '' little dreaming that there would be q time when hr should jou ley through \ Italy with The great Rl ;!.ln for hs compNnion and gtiGe. id that he shoEid na-:,Ler aneng Ei. i9Ie'n;S un,i ad,Airers tiy papt lat eat, 1T .,s.and.
 ln the I'rin@ anr ftithfI MeuDii.:l :" wlltten Ey his W.Ie, We Se the Iaiatrr.