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...folios of Shakespere, first editions of the "Fairie Queene," of Ben Jonson's works, of "Robinson Crusoe," of Gulliver's Travels," "The Vicar of Wakefield," the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and many other works almost as famous. There were first editions and presentation copies of Dickens, Thackeray, Browning, Tennyson, and Stevenson, and numerous other manuscripts from the same period of English literature. In the short term of his life, Harry Elkins Widener had in this collection acquired one of the most valuable private libraries in existence. He had the trained intelligence to determine what was really valuable...
...Victorian turns to the verse: here surely will be comfort; he can understand. Mist, Water-Lilies, Dusk, Evening in the Town, To Snowflakes Dancing Before My Window, In Memoriam, Their First Ride Together; Wordsworth, Herrick, Tennyson, Browning! The mantle of the great upon the shoulders of another generation of poetic youth! Poetry is not dead, whatever may have been one's feelings after reading Number 1 of the new Poetry Journal...
...there is a course that fulfills this condition, it is not known to the mass of undergraduates. If such an introductory course were inaugurated, it is reasonable to suppose that it would be as popular, and certainly as valuable, as one on Greek philosophy. We have courses on Tennyson, Bacon, and "The Story of King Arthur," which many are always eager to take. Why not such a one on the Bible? Is not the Bible as literature worth our attention...
English 55.--Tennyson. Monday...
...DIVINITY CLUB. Reading: "Tennyson's "The Passing of Arthur.'" Professor Winter. Divinity Chapel...