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Wasn't his new Republicanism a reversal of old Republicanism that opposed New Deal legislation? "The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good. I believe it was Tennyson that said: 'The old order changeth and giveth place to new lest one good custom should corrupt the earth.'* We have gotten into the type of civilization now where the Government must interest itself more in the old age security, in unemployment insurance, and all that sort of thing . . . I believe in it, I stand for it, and I don't care...
...period, Dryden and Pope, he mercilessly unwigs: "[Dryden] earned the doubtful glory of having found English poetry brick and left it marble-native brick, imported marble." And Pope was a "sedulous ape." The 19th century fares little better. Wordsworth, according to Graves, "disowned and betrayed his Muse. Tennyson never had one, except Arthur Hallam, and a Muse does not wear whiskers...
Dickens installed his mistress in a "bower in Ampthill Square." Richard Monckton Milnes (later Lord Houghton), who proposed several times to Florence Nightingale, compiled such an extensive mass of pornography for his Yorkshire home that he called the place Aphrodisiopolis. Queen Victoria's favorite poet and laureate, Tennyson himself, enjoyed rude limericks-those five-line exercises in lubricity that still enjoy a large oral circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother...
...library used income from a bequest of the American imagist poet, Amy Lowell, to purchase the manuscripts from the poet's grandson, Sir Charles Tennyson. Three-fourths of the approximately 650 drafts of the poems are in Tennyson's own handwriting...
...Tennyson manuscripts are part of a wide variety of other works in English and American literature and history recently acquired by the Houghton Library, Jackson said. Earlier this week, the library announced the acquisition of rare editions of Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Erasmus, Dante, and other early writers...