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...hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away . . ./ The bold, dark bird that dare not dwell by your side/ That fears no enemy, nor pain, nor danger/ Yet dreads the wound of the shining sword of love." Tennyson would have loved...
...lilt gets a lift from the story, a merry little jape that was cribbed from a 1940 movie, a comedy called Too Many Husbands, which in turn was borrowed from a comedy by Somerset Maugham, who had lifted the theme from a gloomy narrative poem by Tennyson, who had got the idea from a sculptor friend who heard the tale told in Suffolk...
...Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95). The inside story, told by Sir Launcelot's brother Bors de Garis of the triangle formed by King Arthur, Queen Guenivere and the famed Knight of the Round Table. Author Roberts has the good taste to follow Sir Thomas Malory and Alfred Lord Tennyson in keeping the characters perfectly unreal and tucking the dalliance between the lines rather than between the sheets...
...poetry in the English language? Some of the entries: "The uncertain glory of an April day" (William Shakespeare), "If Winter Comes, can Spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley), "Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold" (Algernon Swinburne), "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" (Alfred Lord Tennyson), and finally, the suggestion of a reader named W. A. Ingram, who submitted: "As in old wine lies summer half asleep." The author, revealed Reader Ingram, was something less than immortal; he was an Unidentified American friend who penned the lines during an argument on "the merits of adapting poetry...
Lima, Peru - Poet Laureate Tennyson wrote his poem (''in a few minutes") after reading the London Times's account. The Times reported 607; Tennyson used 600 in the interests of metrical smoothness. Later figures, like the returning British troopers, came home more slowly...