Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . , in a loose cloak and soft hat, stands on a rampartwith a stormy sea below. It is a very bad picture indeed. In February Tennyson paid a visit to Cambridge, thesecond recorded since his undergraduate days. Hestayed at Trinity, at the Lodge, and one evening dined, inthe room which is now the guest-room, with Mr. W. ; the party including the Master of Trinity, Mr. Wright, and the late Mr. Pritchard, Savilian Professorat Oxford, himself a neighbour of the Tennysons at Fresh-water. The next year saw the Tennysons thoroughly estab
Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . , in a loose cloak and soft hat, stands on a rampartwith a stormy sea below. It is a very bad picture indeed. In February Tennyson paid a visit to Cambridge, thesecond recorded since his undergraduate days. Hestayed at Trinity, at the Lodge, and one evening dined, inthe room which is now the guest-room, with Mr. W. ; the party including the Master of Trinity, Mr. Wright, and the late Mr. Pritchard, Savilian Professorat Oxford, himself a neighbour of the Tennysons at Fresh-water. The next year saw the Tennysons thoroughly establishedat Aldworth; where in December 1869 Sir FrederickPollock stayed with them, and heard the poet read the * Holy Grail, which was published at the close of theyear, the volume including The Victim, Wages, and * Lucretius. At the same time Pelleas and Ettarre, The FROM THE IDYLLS TO THE DRAMAS 167 Coining of Aithur, and The Passing of Arthur, wereadded to the Idylls. With this publication the poetreturned to his own again. The Holy Grail has been. ALDWORTH, SURREY. already discussed in its relation to the rest of the Idylls,and little remains 10 be said in its praise. It will liveas the purest, the most imaginative, and richly finished of!the series,—a poem full of the deepest inspiration, and 168 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON the most refined and lofty thought. It has passageswhich, for mystic fancy and power, are unsurpassed inthe language. ^ Its appearance was followed by a little Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker, Vicar of Moorwinstow,had already published in 1864 a poem called The Questof the Sangreal, which was itself no unworthy contributionto literature. The earlier author expressed some chagrinthat Tennyson should have treated the same subject, fancy-ing that he had the claim to consideration which belongs ofright to the first in the field. It was generally felt, how-ever, that the precedence lay with the other poet. Tenny-sons Idylls had been written and publishe
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