Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... tell me. I thank you for your pretty verses. The spirit which inspires them should give the lesson of cheerful resignation and thankfulness and faith to all. Being able to do this by writing such verses, you will always have work of the noblest and best to do. Accept from me every best wish, and believe me, truly yours, "tennyson. "To Mr. Joseph Senior." It is only necessary to allude to the acceptance by Lord Tennyson of the presidency of the Incorporated Society of Authors; and to the marriage, a few months ago, of his eldest son Hallam, who for many years has been his companion adviser, and friend. These are but scraps in the biographical record, but it would be incomplete without them. A larger measure of interest belongs to a letter which gives Tennyson's views on the question of plagiarism and suggestion, recently published in the second edition of Mr. S. E. Dawson's " Study of Lord Tennyson's Poem, 'The Princess'" (Montreal). A good deal of diligence has been expended by Mr. Comyns Carr S and other critics in the endeavour to trace parallelisms between passages in the Laureate's poems and similar modes of expression in the works of other poets. It has always seemed to us that this labour was a little superfluous, and that it established nothing beyond the erudition of the critic. Most students of Tennyson will read his opinion of these searching comparisons with a good deal of sympathy. "Your explanatory notes are very much to the purpose, and I do not object to your finding parallelisms. They must always recur. A gentleman (a Chinese scholar) some time ago wrote to me, saying that in an unknown untranslated poem there were two whole lines of mine almost word for word. Why not? Are not human eyes all over the world looking at the...
