Word: tennysonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor poet, yet his genius is for telling a tale. The tale has been told time and again of Arthur and his knights, of Gwenivere and her Lancelot, but never so utterly that a master craftsman dare not render his version. Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there. The variegated metres and intermittent themes are disjointed in a whole effect, but the wistful beauty of moments and moods stands out as never in earlier classics. Thus Arthur dying...
...poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne...
...Once I printed a Sunday paper to give away. . . My wife and I traveled all over; I introduced her to Mrs. Potter Palmer out in Chicago . . . It all goes back to the Baltimore fire." . . Old Mr. Lancaster pointed to a woodcut on a time-stained circular, which showed a Tennysonian gentleman with bushy brown whiskers, gold pince nez. "I looked like that once," said he. "It was always a fight...
...Boston Public Library, it seems, is to play the role of Rebecca. When some disciple of pure English, anxious to struggle out of the habit of saying "atta boy," telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare...