Word: ainger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennyson and Nature. Daniel Macmillan died, and prospering Alexander moved to "The Elms" in London's Upper Tooting. Writers, clergymen and artists flocked to his house. One of these visitors was the great clerical dignitary, Master of the Temple Alfred Ainger. The Master's evening readings of Shakespeare were famously good and deservedly famous because he himself became so excited that he would suddenly break forth, "Pucklike, into a shadowy dance, swift, graceful, unreal." Another favorite of Alexander's, in fact his idol, was Alfred Lord Tennyson, who did nothing more spectacular than to walk and smoke...
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