Word: tennysons
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...audience that completely filled Sever 11 last evening welcomed Mr. E. Charlton Black at the first of the series of 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...
...last day of Tennyson bespoke the lofty character of the man. He who had sung of death as has no other poet of any time passed away in such quiet majesty that it makes his mourners realize that death is after all, an integral part of life, that it comes as a loving mother to close the eyes of her weary child...
...last Tennyson was progressive. His thought was more profound, and his diction more energetic. There is no need of a softening of criticism as we read his last volume. This little book of less than a thousand lines possesses more than a sentimental value. It shows to the full Tennyson's bread+++h, variety, suggestiveness, and purity of diction...
...Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh, will give the first of his course of twenty lectures on English Literature at 7.30 this evening, in Sever 11. The subject for this evening will be Tennyson. In the lectures immediately following this, the early English literature will be taken up, begining with the Anglo Saxon...
...Lecture. Tennyson. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...