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II.Poetry in Homely Lines.I have known people who had to go to Europe to see a sunset, who could never find out how beautiful snow was till they saw it on the Alps. The familiar miracles of nature at home were too cheap, and there could be nothing wonderful in what they had only to look out of their back-windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry...
III.The Practical and the Ideal.But ours is a utilitarian age, and what is the use of studying the belles lettres? I would find its use in the very existence of that utilitarian tendency. The mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that...
V.Piers Ploughman.In Dante we have had an example of a great national poet, and as contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere...
...largely one of custom, the one desire being to secure men who will best represent the scholarly activity in the University. Now in the Scientific School there is no precise standard corresponding to that in the College, and yet students who would be fitted to take part will find no difficulty in competing. In fact there has already been one man, taking the degree S. B., who delivered a commencement part...
From the first it is the feeling of law which governs Tennyson. Even in "In Memoriam," an ode to a dead friend, who was far dearer to him than any one else in the world, we find a gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music...