Kipling, 1907?
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From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards
Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2007 6:46 PM
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Subject: supply the missing name and date
For centuries past the literature of England has flourished and blossomed with
marvellous luxuriance. When Tennyson's immortal lyre was silenced forever, the
cry which is so customary at the passing of literary giants was raised. With him
the glorious reign of poetry is over; there is none to take up the mantle.
Similar despairing notes were struck in this country on the demise of Tegnér,
but it is not so with the fair goddess Poetry. She does not perish, is not
deposed from her high estate; she but arrays herself in a fresh garb to suit the
altered tastes of a new age.
In the works of Tennyson idealism is so pervasive that it meets the eye in a
very palpable and direct form. Traits of idealism, however, may be traced in the
conceptions and gifts of writers who differ widely from him, such writers who
seem primarily concerned with mere externals and who have won renown especially
for their vivid word-picturings of the various phases of the strenuous,
pulsating life of our own times, that life which is often chequered and fretted
by the painful struggle for existence and by all its concomitant worries and
embarrassments. This description applies to
name
date
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