A Commentary on Tennyson's In MemoriamMacmillan, 1920 - 223 pages This 1920 volume offers the prominent English scholar's analysis of Tennyson's 1849 poem. |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
A. C. BRADLEY Adonais Ancient Sage appears Arthur Hallam Arthur Henry Hallam Author's note Beeching Christmas Christmastide CIII Collins compares connection contrast CXVIII CXXII CXXIV CXXXI dark dead friend described divine doubt dream earth earthly edition Edmund Lushington Elegy Eloisa to Abelard Epilogue experience expressed faith fancy feeling Ferrall foll forget Gatty Gatty's gloom grief Hallam's death hope human idea imagined imply interpretation last stanza light living Locksley Hall Lord Tennyson LVII LXXII LXXVIII LXXXIX LXXXVI Lycidas meaning Memoir Memoriam memory merely metaphor nature passage perhaps periphrasis Petrarch phrase poem poet poet's mind poetry present Princess probably Prologue quoted reader recall reference remember reminiscence seems sense songs Sonnet Sonnet 59 sorrow soul spirit spring stanza suggested suppose thee things thou thought thro tion tone trance truth Voices whole words XCIII XCIX XLIV XLVII
Fréquemment cités
Page 88 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 149 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 123 - And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie Howling in outer darkness.
Page 44 - Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee where the waters run; Thou standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou then? I cannot guess; But tho...
Page 166 - He is gone who seem'd so great. — Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him, God accept him, Christ receive him.
Page 123 - MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 227 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!
Page 97 - There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
Page 227 - And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth ; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Page 123 - tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.