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With summer lightnings of a soul So full of summer warmth , —so glad , — So healthy , sound , and clear , and whole , His memory scarce makes me sad . '—pp . 33 , 34
This passage shows humour , of which there is a good deal interspersed . The songs to an owl , in the first volume , are amusing specimens , as are the lines to Christopher North , in the second : — * You did late review my lays , Crusty Christopher ; You did mingle blame and praise , Rusty Christopher . When I learnt from whom it came , I forgave you all the hlame , Musty Christopher ; I could not forgive the praise , Fusty Christopher . *—p . 153 .
In * Mariana , ' ' Nothing will die / and All things will die / 6 Recollections of the Arabian Nights / and the c Lotos Eaters / there is a rich display of the action and re-action of mind and matter , —of the effect of external scenery upon the soul within , and of the colouring which the soul spreads over all the external world . Rich and strange is the harmony here produced , and deeply must its truth be felt . The best combined display of the
author ' s powers , reflection , and imagination , description and melody , is in the * Legend of the Lady of Shaiott !' Two years are no very long time , and we ought not to be disappointed , perhaps , but we should have been gratified to see a more strongly-marked improvement than the second of these volumes exhibits over the first . All great intellects are progressive . The mind that only feeds upon itself will not become
such * an athlete bold' as the world wants . Mr . Tennyson must have more earnestness , and less consciousness . His power must have a more defined and tangible object . It were shame that such gifts as his should only wreathe garlands , or that the influences which such poetry as his must exercise , should have no defined purpose , and only benefit humanity ( for , any way , true poetry must benefit humanity ) incidentally and aimlessly . Let him ascertain his mission , and work his work , and realize the
aspirations of the sonnet with which this volume commences : — - 4 Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free , Like some broad river rushing down alone , With the self-same impulse wherewith he was thrown From his loud fount upon the echoing lea : Which , with increasing might , doth forward flee By town , and tower , and hill , and cape , and isle ; And in the middle of the green salt sea , Keeps his blue waters fresh for many a mile .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/40/
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