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The perfection of the melody is thus preserved unimpaired , and a quaint and rich character imparted , though at the hazard of the charge of affectation . The author is a mental philosopher , as the greatest poets have ever been , and as every poet of these later ages must be , to take
distinguished or permanent rank . The first onset of poetry conquered the external world , and erected as trophies descriptions of object and action never to be surpassed : but observation has yielded the foremost place to reflection , in ministering to poetical genius . The classic portrayed human character by its exterior demonstrations and influences on the material objects of sense ; the modern delineates the whole external world from its reflected
imagery in the mirror of human thought and feeling . This change has taken place not js imply because the ground was preoccupied , but as a necessary result from the progress of the human mind , from the stronger light which has been cast on its constitution and operations , and from a juster appreciation of the fact that mind alone
* The living fountain in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime / Poetry , in becoming philosophized ., has acquired new and exhaustless worlds . The changing moods of mind diversify a landscape with far more variety than cloud or sunshine in all their combinations ; and " those moods are in themselves subjects of description , which may at once possess the deepest interest , and allow the most luxuriant ornament . ' The Confessions of a
sensitive Mind , not in unity with itself , ' in Mr . Tennyson ' s first volume , ( in a lower degree , the Ode to Memory /) and the * Palace of Art * in the present publication , are noble poems of this class . They are the Writings of one who has gazed on the diversities and the changes of the human spirit , on the loftiness of its pride , the splendours of its revelries , the heavings and tossings of
its struggles , the bewilderment of its doubt , and the abysmal depths of its despair , —with the same poetical perception that young Homer , yet unblinded , watched the tent of council , and the field of battle ; or that Virgil saw the husbandman making glad furrows on the fertile plain , beneath propitious constellations .
And this reflective character of modern poetry , which is , in a peculiar degree , the character of Mr . Tennyson ' s productions , while it is exhibited , directly , in such compositions as those just mentioned , pervades , by its indirect influence , almost every verse , —we might say , perhaps , almost every word , being a principle of selection in the choice of terms which often renders them productive of strong and permanent effects , even on the inattentive reader . The following introductory lines to The Palace of Art ' will No . 73 . I >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/33/
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