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English 55 in Sever 11, Professor Bliss Perry on "The Varieties of Tennyson's Style...
...LACQUER LADY-F. Tennyson Jesse-Macmillan...
Author F. Tennyson Jesse is a grandniece of the late great Alfred Lord Tennyson, onetime (1850-92) Poet Laureate of England. But she is no whole-souled admirer of the Tennysonian virtues. Some of her printed remarks should make her great-uncle revolve in his cerements. One-time painter, newspaperwoman, reviewer, correspondent for the Ministry of Information during the War, she has also written: Tom Fool, Many Latitudes, Moonraker, Murder and its Motives. Author Jesse is married to Harold Marsh Harwood, with whom she collaborated on a play: The Pelican. She lives in Sussex, likes yachting...
...concluded, "It might be possible, by drawing on our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution; by gathering some noble, prophetic essays such as those of Emerson and Carlyle, and poems of longing and vision from Lowell, Whittler and Tennyson, together with a few of Lincoln's addresses and other inspiring writings of our modern times, to make a modern bible to add to the ancient book, and it need not suffer by the comparison...
...Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...