The Poetry of Tennyson

1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets, -great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style; great in the breadth of his human sympathy; great in the truth with which he has expressed the hopes and fears of this century; great, above all, in the faith with which he has voiced the great reaction out of the heart of a doubling age, towards the Christianity of Christ and the trust in Immortal Love. Contents: Contents: The First Flight; The Palace of Art; Milton and Tennyson; The Princess and Maud; In Memoriam; The Idylls of the King; The Historic Trilogy; The Bible in Tennyson; Fruit from an Old Tree; On the Study of Tennyson; and Chronology. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing