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...talk was followed by reading from Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and from George Du Maurier's "Trilby...
...said: The significant word of this century is progress. The first great Englishman to inspire us with the idea of progress was Tennyson. No two generations are alike. Each century shows great change from the preceding...
...company of Wellesley students gave Tennyson's "Princess" Saturday...
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...
Robert Browning was by nature an optimist, and his large, hearty hopefulness shows in every thing he did. While the hero of Tennyson was the man who followed duty, the hero of Browning followed the wishes of his own heart...