Word: tennysons
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...next stirring epoch in the life of the Celts came with the invasions of the Anglo Saxons. The grand figure in these conflicts is that of King Arthur, and the fountain of romance that has found its source in his life seems inexhaustible. Such modern poets as Wadsworth, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, have shown themselves greatly influenced by the history or the legends of this mediaeval hero...
...fiction in the number, a rather conventional story by Grace Blanchard, a sketch called "Pretty Miss Barneveld," and the conclusion of "One of a Thousand." The "curiosities." so to speak, are the fac-sim-iles of Whittier's first two printed poems, or Longfelow's sonnets to Whittier and Tennyson, and Tennyson's acknowledgment of Longfellow's sonnet...
...Black then reviewed in outline the growth of Tennyson's genius, and the events of his literary life. From his parents he inherited physical vigor, spiritual charm, and intellectual superiority. His father was a man of parts, strong and artistic; his mother a gentle, loving woman; his many brothers and sisters bright, intelligent, and poetic. It was a dreamy, and yet inspiring life...
...early youth, that Tennyson inbibed his deep love of nature. The charms of the scenery stamped themselves indelibly on his mind. He never contented himself with picturesque generalizations. He shows an intimate, precise acquaintance with nature, and his eye for color and minuteness of detail lends much of their charm to all his poems...
...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...