Illustrations of TennysonChatto & Windus, 1891 - 186 pages This 1891 volume offers analysis on a selection of significant Tennyson poems. |
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Page 155 - making lightnings in the splendour of the moon;' we have also the magnificent simile which compares its flashing flight to ' the streamers of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night;' the hand is ' cloth'd in white samite, mystic, wonderful." We may notice, in passing, that Arthur's words to Bedivere—
Page 59 - off ... for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. In the poem the imitations from Homer and Virgil are too obvious to
Page 104 - Nature's law That none the meanest of created things, Or forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good, a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably link'd (The
Page 59 - For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark
Page 59 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark hroad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with
Page 99 - tis common ; all that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Hamlet. Ay, madam, it is common. Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break
Page 122 - Tennyson's versification of this the effect of the five repetitions of the word ' forgetful'— Forgetful of the falcon and the hunt, Forgetful of the tilt and tournament. Forgetful, &c.— has often been deservedly admired. We may notice, however, that it would seem to
Page 26 - READE. It Is Never Too Late to Mend. The Double Marriage. Love Me Little, Love Me Long. The Cloister and the Hearth. The Course of True Love. The Autobiography of a
Page 73 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, 'Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow
Page 51 - Their very memory is fair and bright It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast Like stars Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove