Victorian Poetry
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Victorian Poetry is by John Drinkwater. Chapter IV, Tennyson’s Diction, says it will be convenient at first to consider a single poem of Tennyson’s from In Memoriam, which embodies most of the characteristics of his style. The book says that even in the justly famous Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington there is, in parts at least, a lower level of integrity in expression than in a passage from In Memoriam.
The book says that, by the evidence of such things, which are not seldom within Tennyson’s reach, it is a very lean and jealous humour of criticism that can deny him a place among even the greatest. A more debatable element in Tennyson’s work may also be illustrated from the Idylls, and the book describes Arthur taking his last leave of Guinevere at the Almesbury convent with an uncompromising indictment of Guinevere’s sin. The book describes one poet's way of saying delightedly that the flowers were fresh and the birds were glad and that apples were sweet as standing beside his humorous invention of character as one of the two chief glories of his poetry.
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- Author
- John Drinkwater
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- 103
- Language
- English
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- Victorian Literature
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