. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . s death in 1831,he left college without taking his degree: andfor the 60 years that followed he gave himselfto a poets life with a clear resolution whichnever wavered. His volume of poems published in 1832 markeda distinct growth in strength and skill. It was buta tiny book; but there was a quality in it whichmore than balanced the lack of quantity. TheLady of Shalott, Oinone, The Lotos-Eaters,The Palace of Art, and <A Dream of FairWomen
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . s death in 1831,he left college without taking his degree: andfor the 60 years that followed he gave himselfto a poets life with a clear resolution whichnever wavered. His volume of poems published in 1832 markeda distinct growth in strength and skill. It was buta tiny book; but there was a quality in it whichmore than balanced the lack of quantity. TheLady of Shalott, Oinone, The Lotos-Eaters,The Palace of Art, and <A Dream of FairWomen, revealed the presence of a true dreamerof dreams, gifted with the magic which trans-lates visions into music. The Millers Daugh-ter. The May Queen, and New Years Eve,showed the touch of one who felt the charmof English rural scenery and common life witha sentiment so fresh and pure and deep that hemight soon be able to lay his hand upon the veryheart of the people. But before this highest potency of the poetsgift could come to Tennyson, there was need ofa baptism of conflict and sorrow, to purify himfrom the mere love of art for arts sake, to save. ALKRliD TICNNVSON. TENNYSON him from becoming an over-dainty weaver ofexcjiiisite verse, and to consecrate his genius tothe severe and noble service of humanity andtruth. This liberating and uplifting experiencewas enfolded in the profound grief which fellupon him in Arthur Hallams sudden death atVienna, in 1833. How deeply this irretrievableloss shook the poets heart, how closely and howstrenuously it forced him to face the mysteryand the meaning of life in lonely spiritualwrestling, was fully disclosed, after 17 years, inthe famous elegy, In Memoriam.* But thetraces of the conflict and some of its fine resultswere seen even earlier, in the two volumes ofPoems which appeared in 1842, as the fruitageof a decade of silence. Ulysses,* MortedArthur, <St. Simeon Stylites, Dora,Locksley Hall, A Vision of Sin, The TwoVoices,* and that
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