Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . ned by theKing of Denmark, meeting the Czar and Czarina, the Kingof Greece, and the Princess of Wales. On the followingday the Royal party lunched on the visitors yacht, and inthe afternoon Tennyson read his guests extracts from hispoetry. It was generally understood that it was during thistour that Mr. Gladstone suggested to Tennyson an offerwhich, a month or two later, the Laureate accepted. Bethat as it may, Tennyson had not long returned to Englandwhen it was reported that he was about to be created aPeer. In December the rumour was auth
Alfred Lord Tennyson; a study of his life and work . ned by theKing of Denmark, meeting the Czar and Czarina, the Kingof Greece, and the Princess of Wales. On the followingday the Royal party lunched on the visitors yacht, and inthe afternoon Tennyson read his guests extracts from hispoetry. It was generally understood that it was during thistour that Mr. Gladstone suggested to Tennyson an offerwhich, a month or two later, the Laureate accepted. Bethat as it may, Tennyson had not long returned to Englandwhen it was reported that he was about to be created aPeer. In December the rumour was authenticated, and onthe 18th of January 1884 he was gazetted Baron Tennysonof Aldworth and Farringford. It was a ripe opportunity forthe comment of cheap journalism, and these opportunitiesare not neglected. It is only as they pass and are forgottenthat their eager and importunate insistence shows its feebleand ephemeral nature to full disadvantage. Lord Tennysons attendances in the House were veryfew; his vote was only registered on two occasions. He. ALFKED, LORD TENNYSON, 214 ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON voted in support of the bill for extending the CountyFranchise, and paired in favour of the bill which advocatedthe legalisation of marriage with a deceased wifes sister. This year made a further gap in the circle of Tennysonsfriends; in June 1883 Edward FitzGerald died. Justbefore his friends death, as a later volume of poems tellsus, Mr. Hallam Tennyson found, among some old manu-script in his fathers handwriting, the dramatic monologue*Tiresias, which the Laureate hastened to send to Fitz-Gerald, with a hearty prelude which laughed at his friendsvegetarian diet, and recalled with tenderness those gracious timesWhen, in our younger London days,You found some merit in my rhymes,And I more pleasure in your praise. But FitzGeralds friendly criticism was not to touch* Tiresias. And while I fancied that my friendFor this brief idyll would require A less diffuse and opulent end,And would
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