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Since Charles II appointed John Dryden England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, the office has been occupied by a number of distinguished men, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, John Masefield and C. Day Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
...grew up she became absorbed in the literature that surrounded her, virtually to the exclusion of everything that lay beyond. One thinks of her in her childhood as she portrays herself in one letter--sitting alone in the corner at a dance, reading Tennyson's In Memoriam. She exclaims, "I would give all my profound Greek to dance really well...
Paul A. Cantor '66, assistant professor of English Literature, then gave voice to perhaps the quintessential poetic verse on spring, from Tennyson's "Locksley Hall...
...HOWEVER "pure" criticism can become, it still has political consequences. And the same holds true for literature in general. If critics won't invoke certain works as representing their society--as say, British critics might have done with Kipling and Tennyson to support British imperialism at the turn of the century--Somebody surely will. That's when it becomes important for Marxists to be aware of the abuses of romance, which in its latest form--science fiction--still hasn't been completely absorbed by bourgeois values (some of H.G. Wells's novels and Stat Trek are examples of forms...
...professes confidence that the carbon-copy symbols will cause no confusion. Officials of NETV-whose program Anyone for Tennyson? is being broadcast on public TV nationwide-doubt that. Says Program Manager Ron Hull: "If you see that in New York, you're going to say, 'Those Nebraska hicks stole NBC's symbol.' And that's not true." Lawyers for both networks are pondering whether NETV can claim prior use and force NBC to dust off the peacock...