Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ar fame. Poor, however, as was the quality of the verse producedduring these years, it must beadmitted that the first eifortsof the new poet who was de-stined to become the glory ofhis age revealed no strikingsuperiority of gift. In 1826appeared the small but nowhistoric volume entitled Poemsby Two Brothers, a collectionof weakly imitative lyrics, fromwhich no one certainly wouldhave guessed the illustriousf
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ar fame. Poor, however, as was the quality of the verse producedduring these years, it must beadmitted that the first eifortsof the new poet who was de-stined to become the glory ofhis age revealed no strikingsuperiority of gift. In 1826appeared the small but nowhistoric volume entitled Poemsby Two Brothers, a collectionof weakly imitative lyrics, fromwhich no one certainly wouldhave guessed the illustriousfuture which lay before one ofthe joint authors, or the genuine,though of course far slighter,poetic inspiration which was tofind utterance in the other. Itis not now possible to distinguishthe share of Alfred Tennyson(1809-92) in this early venturefrom that of Charles; but the fact is the less to be regretted since Thethe dead level of mediocrity is maintained uniformly throughout, ^^°f/°°^and in no one number of the volume can the most sympathetic Effortscriticism detect the faintest individuality of touch. There areechoes of Byron and of Scott; there is even an echo of iloore;. IELICIA HEMAXS, BY.\XGUS rLETCHER. (National Porfmit dfiUryii.) 212 THE XEW SPIRIT AND THE NEW PATHS. [1832 but the unmistakable music of that voice which was to charmtwo generations of Eughshmen, and to retain its sweetness andpower unimpaired until, nearly seventy years later, it was stilledfor ever, is nowhere to be heard. Never since Apollo tookservice with Admetus has the godhead of an Immortal beenso effectually _ jj ^^,.^g j^ot till 1830 that Tennyson again broke silence, nor Earuest Can it be said that even in the volume published by him in^°°^ this year the promise of his future greatness stood as yet assured. For although in the collection entitled Poems ChieflyLyrical are to be found a few such masterpieces as Mariana, The Dying Swan, The Merman, and The Mer
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