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...DIED. Tennyson Guyer, 67, earthy, plain-speaking minister and Representative from Ohio's Fourth District since 1973, who was known for his speeches on inspirational and patriotic topics; of a heart attack; in Alexandria...
...planned to see the place in action, bustling with down vests and hockey sticks and sparkling in a December snow shower. The fires would be dancing in gloomy libraries, where weathered sages gathered to discuss Tennyson and sip sherry. Upstairs the husky captains of the guys' and girls' swimming teams would be making love frantically, faintly worrying about how to explain their absence to the coach. In front of the headmaster's residence two little children, a boy and girl indistinguishable from each other in their cordurov overalls and knit hats, would romp with an aging golden retriever named Mayflower...
Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner and Loewe. On screen in the '70s, George Lucas set the story in space (Star Wars); Robert Bresson made it austere (Lancelot of the Lake), and six English cutups made it funny (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) But Boorman has never been cowed by precedent or expectations...
Perhaps Kennedy should have quoted a more appropriate Tennyson passage than the one he used...
Excellent poets (Dryden, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Masefield), as well as bad ones, have served as poet laureate, yet the job has virtually never called forth any verse more memorable than the sort of decoratively obsequious doggerel that a well-educated butler might compose. The most enduringly dreadful lines were penned by the spellbound and earnest Alfred Austin in the late 19th century. Austin, author of "Leszko the Bastard, a Tale of Polish Grief," auditioned for the laureate's post with a marvelously stupefying couplet on the illness of the Prince of Wales: "Across the wires the electric message came...