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...Poems, by Two Brothers," a book of poetry written by Tennyson and his brother in their youth is considered the finest copy in existence. The Memorial Room is fortunate in owning a copy of a first edition of Tennyson's masterpiece, "The Holy Grail." An autographed manuscript of the immortal lines about the passing of Arthur is also contained in this volume...
First editions of Tennyson's "Poem of Two Brothers" and his Holy Grail", and the corrected proof of the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" are to be shown. A first edition of the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is included in the exhibition...
...less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father's guilty love with Guinevere-wIth Guinevere, embodiment of all perfections, inculcatrix of his brightest ideals...
...expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King Arthur, who gave Anglia a good administration and checked the Saxon crime wave more than Sir Galahad who went off by himself to catch a glimpse of the Holy Grail, although the latter achieved what we prize above all else, Success...
...grail for him is a wineglass, empty, upside down. He speaks for Prohibition (sometimes at $100 a speech from the Anti-Saloon League) fanatically,* beautifully,*interminably...