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...strange, said Professor Kittredge, that Tennyson has given to Gawain such a frivolous and even tricky character. It is certainly annoying to anyone who knows the old romance to see the noblest knight of the Round Table thus insulted. Tennyson could have been acquainted only with Malory's later prose version of the story, for his characterization of Gawain is identical with Malory's. But Malory's tale is entirely unlike the original romance. In all the early stories of Gawain, he is not the man that Malory and Tennyson have pictured him. He is an ideal knight, a champion...
...Lady of the Fountain." It is in blank-verse form, interspersed with prose of decidedly poetic diction. The poetry is very musical in its rythm, and contains many good lines, while the prose is almost as musical as the poetry. The whole thing is manifestly influenced by Tennyson if not actually in imitation of him, but as it does not pretend not to be, this fact can hardly be said to lessen its value...
Sever 11 was again crowded to its utmost capacity last night when Mr. E. Charlton Black gave his lecture on Tennyson. Even the small ante rooms were filled, and many were obliged to go away. In view of the great number that attend and the small size and closeness of Sever 11 there seems to be no reason why this popular course of lectures should not be given in Sanders Theatre...
...when Tennyson was an undergraduate of Trinity that he published the first volume to which he signed his name. With Cowper and Burns began a new style of literature, in which nature was more regarded. Especially in the poetry of Keats we have as good a painting of nature as there is. It was when the new poetical style of Cowley and Burns had done its work through Keats that Tennyson came into prominence. Among his early poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady...
...Tennyson. Lecture. E. Charlton Black, Esq., late of the University of Edinburgh Sever...