Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether... they are good or bad things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father is one of the few men I know who say they do not like Shakespeare. He says "Shakespeare is so very coarse." I could forg...ive my father for not liking Shakespeare if it was only because Shakespeare wrote poetry, but this is not the reason. He says he likes Tennyson and this gravely aggravates his offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This hard work will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators, nor by soldiers, nor professors, nor readers o...f Tennyson; but by men of endurance--deep-chested, long- winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In middle life each man wrote a long elegiac work centering on the death of someone very near his heart: Tennyson's In Memoriam su...rely corresponds to Brahms' German Requiem.... At the other extreme you will no doubt think of Brahms' fiery Hungarian dances and graceful Viennese waltzes: in the work of Tennyson there are similar pieces, in broad dialect with touches of rough comedy and unbuttoned jollity, in particular "The Northern Farmer." Between these extremes, in the work of each man, lies a single masterpiece, strange but characteristic. Tennyson's Maud is what he calls a monodrama, a set of lyrics spoken by one man, telling the story of tragic love. In 1869 Brahms lost the beautiful Julie Schumann: the result was his famous Alto Rhapsody, an extended lyric, in fact a monodrama on the agonies of loneliness in a heart thirsty for love. The nineteenth century was a nationalist era, so both Brahms and Tennyson wrote pieces we should now call jingoistic: they are seldom played or read today, but they are part of the total picture. For Brahms the best known was his Triumph Song, written after the German conquests of France. For Tennyson, it was "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and other galloping and shouting lyrics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enhances the chances to bless with a benison Alfred Lord Tennyson crossing the barlaid... With cold vegetation from pale deputations Of temperance workers (all signed In Memoriam)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But no. Too soon I voun' my charm abroke. Noo comely soul in white like her--... Noo soul a-steppen light like her-- An' nwone o' comely height like her-- Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green,... The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »