Ruskin? Arnold?
On 3/1/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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