This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885* Excerpt: ...allotted span of human life, should bring forth a volume of verse which shows no falling-off from his old perfection of artistic expression, and which contains at least one poem of perhaps greater power and pathos than any he had before given to the world. So completely have these "Ballads and Other of virtue, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885* Excerpt: ...allotted span of human life, should bring forth a volume of verse which shows no falling-off from his old perfection of artistic expression, and which contains at least one poem of perhaps greater power and pathos than any he had before given to the world. So completely have these "Ballads and Other of virtue, and the roses and raptures of vice." Even judged from the purely artistic standpoint, the two poets are diametrically opposed; the one possesses all the exquisite finish of painful elaboration, some of his highest efforts showing only too plainly the marks of the file; while the verse of the other seems to rush headlong, like the waters of a cataract, bearing onward, not only objects of beauty, but things loathsome and commonplace. Tennyson's poetry, too, is freighted with thought; he has almost a scientific mind, and has speculated wisely on the deep problems that beset humanity. But in Swinburne, beyond a vague sanscullotism, a wild hatred of all established religions and governments, and a decided preference for Greek paganism to modern Christianity, there is really little in the way of speculation or philosophy. The occasions are rare in which Mr. Tennyson has descended from his serene heights into the angry arena of literary strife; but, as the late Lord Lytton had good reason to remember, the "school Miss Alfred" is extremely "cunning in fence," and has shown a complete mastery of personal satire; and in one of these satirical moments he is supposed thus to have apostrophized his present critic--"O little bard, is your lot so hard, If men neglect your pages? I think not much of yours or of mine, I hear the roll of the ages'1--which, to say the least of it, is contemptuous. Knowing the genus irritabile vatum, w...
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