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...Tennyson: Poems, 1833," Professor Lowes, Emerson...
...this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould of flesh and blood...
...This stanza is the peculiar handiwork of Tennyson alone. It was thought wise by the authors to allow him space in these columns and by this publicity to repay him in some small way for the debt incurred. Also the idea is a particularly happy one, and it does not lie within the powers of the present authors to improve upon the phraseology. The authors further wish to point out to their readers that the above work will be greatly enhanced if compared with the original poems, which can be purchased at your local dealer or directly from the factory...
When the Romantic movement became too saccharine, it was dispatched from the world with some promptness. It takes a genius to be convincingly romantic. The nineteenth century gave birth to Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and a few others, but as the years wore on these men dies, and the century, full of honorable years, could produce no more to take their places. As a result men grew tired first of the lesser poets who labored and brought forth exceedingly diminutive mice and then of the whole movement and what it stood...
This was puzzling. They speeded up the instrument. Lord Tennyson roared angrily. They tried another adjustment. Firmly he repeated his wail: "Oojee Boojee! Oojee Boojee...