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With the death of Thomas Hardy the chain connecting the Victorian and modern literary worlds is broken, for he was undoubtedly the strongest remaining link. The contemporary of such literary gods as Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Thackeray, Troilope, Charles Reade, Lytton, Rosetti, Morris, Ruskin, Meredith, and Swinburne, his quiet passing away after a month's illness seems almost an event of some past year, a happening around which the shadows have already closed. For to those readers who have come under the spell of "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," and "The Return of the Native...
...wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly thought that Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic" would appeal to him, for it contained the phrase "Heart of Oak," which was the name of his "Books"; but no! "That was bad business for England to be in, and I won't have...
...until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...
Manuscripts, letters, and original editions of Stevenson, Tennyson, and Dickens will be on exhibition next week in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room...
First editions of Tennyson's "Poem of Two Brothers" and his Holy Grail", and the corrected proof of the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" are to be shown. A first edition of the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is included in the exhibition...