Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . ties and unpolished corners which arestrangely foreign to Tennysons genius: in its finishedform it is so delicately elaborated as to be in parts evenobtrusively artificial. But the over-elaboration is atonedfor by the proportion and concentration of the whole. Meanwhile the making of new friends did not imply for-getfulness of the old. FitzGerald was with the Tennysonsduring their last days at Twickenham : and in the quiet oftheir later home in the Isle of Wight, whither they movedin 1853, they were mindful of old acquaintances for whomlife
Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . ties and unpolished corners which arestrangely foreign to Tennysons genius: in its finishedform it is so delicately elaborated as to be in parts evenobtrusively artificial. But the over-elaboration is atonedfor by the proportion and concentration of the whole. Meanwhile the making of new friends did not imply for-getfulness of the old. FitzGerald was with the Tennysonsduring their last days at Twickenham : and in the quiet oftheir later home in the Isle of Wight, whither they movedin 1853, they were mindful of old acquaintances for whomlife was more eventful. Frederick Denison Maurice, havingbeen expelled from Kings College, offered during the firstweeks of 1854 to resign his position as Chaplain ofLincolns Inn,—a delicate step which the Benchers beggedhim to reconsider. And among the many letters of sympathy MAUD III \vhich he received none was more tender and genial thanthe Laureates, in which he pressed him to forget histrouble for the moment in a visit to his old friends and his. FARRINGFORD. new godson. Whewell considered the poem the mostperfect of its kind which he had ever encountered. * Should all our churchmen foam in spiteAt you, so careful of the right, Yet one lay-hearth would give you welcome(Take it and come) to the Isle of Wight; Come, Maurice, come : the lawn as yetIs hoar with rime, or spon^jy-wet; But when the wreath of March has , anemone, violet. Or later, pay one visit here, For those are few we hold as dear; Nor pay but one, but come for many,Many and many a happy year. 112 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON It was the same dislike of disagreement in tenet anddoctrine that moved Tennyson to write a warm letter ofwelcome to Bishop Colenso, at the time when the narrowerminds among the clergy were fuming against him,—a letterin which he begged the Bishop to come and stay with himas long as he liked. The poets faith was strong enoughand high enough to despise controversy over detail, anddi
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