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They read ecclesiastic history, pored over medieval manuscripts, and for relaxation visited cathedrals or read their contemporaries: Tennyson, who was writing about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
...poet Tennyson, some 100 years ago, express the faith that is now being fulfilled...
...Since Tennyson first immortalized their suicidal attack, The Charge of the Light Brigade has been the inspiration for four blood-and-thunder films. Now Director Tony Richardson is trotting out a fifth version. Unable to shoot at Balaclava, actual site of the 1854 battle in the Crimea (it is now a Russian missile base), he set up his cameras in a suitably barren valley in Turkey, 30 miles from Ankara. There, for the past two months, he has led his all-star cast -David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Harvey and John Gielgud-through mishap and mayhem. With...
...what they seek in poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds, "is totally dead. A poem like Tennyson's Merlin and the Gleam would be the laughingstock of a coffeehouse today...
...unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth" but for the "dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth." Such a taste was bound to shock the fastidious Edwardians, who were still doting on Tennyson. Shock them Masefield did with such long narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy, which spoke of "painted whores" and "reeking hags" and "drunken, poaching, boozing brutes...