Select poems of Alfred lord Tennyson . acy of the Ideal, which the youthful genius of Tennyson so oftenrealized. Wordsworth, as well as Tennyson, seems to me to have profaned inthe same way some of the most wonderful expressions of the absolute Idealvouchsafed to him —for instance, in one line of his Ode to Duty, in which thescientific theologian presumes to correct the inspired prophet. My sister was so modest I never could persuade her to send the sketch, andso my note did not go, and now both are lost. When I went to England in 1871,on news of her death, I could not find them among her pape


Select poems of Alfred lord Tennyson . acy of the Ideal, which the youthful genius of Tennyson so oftenrealized. Wordsworth, as well as Tennyson, seems to me to have profaned inthe same way some of the most wonderful expressions of the absolute Idealvouchsafed to him —for instance, in one line of his Ode to Duty, in which thescientific theologian presumes to correct the inspired prophet. My sister was so modest I never could persuade her to send the sketch, andso my note did not go, and now both are lost. When I went to England in 1871,on news of her death, I could not find them among her papers, or would havesent them then. CONTENTS. PAGE Recollections of the Arabian Nights it The Poet i6 The Lady of Shalott 19 The Millers Daughter 25 Q^NONE ^^ The Lotos-Eaters 42 The Palace of Art 48 A Dream of Fair Women 60 • The Epic : Morte dArthur 71 The Talking Oak 8n Ulysses 94 Locksley Hall 97 The Two Voices 108 St. Agnes Eve 126 Sir Galahad 128 The Brook 132 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington . 140 NOTES 149 INDEX 197.


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