Word: memoriam
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lectures he will give here this winter. He spoke on Tennyson, more in the way of tribute than of criticism. Last spring, said he, when we last considered Tennyson, he was in the pertection of his powers, now he is with the great dead. The mourner of "In Memoriam" is now mourned by the English speaking race...
...made Poet Laureate, and in the same year he published his "In Memoriam." and this poem has now come to mourners. We make no attempt to judge Tennyson, nor to give him his proper rank. We are, in the most serious sense, hero-worshippers before him. The more we read, the more must we admire at once his gentle loveliness, his subtle charm, his manly greatness, and above all, his pure and lofty tone of mind...
...lyrical period of his life. After 1833 came the idyllic period. He was an ideal descriptive writer, and from now on his touches of nature were especially delicate. In 1847 appeared The Princess, which dealt with the nature of man and woman. In 1850 he published his In Memoriam, which can be compared to nothing else in poetry. It was not till 1875 that Tennyson appeared as a dramatic writer. Though he wrote a few good dramas, his genius was not dramatic. It was as a writer of studies in character and dialect that he especially excelled...