An Essay on Tennyson´s Idylls of the King (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Essay on Tennyson´s Idylls of the King The Arthurian legend has at all times exercised a strong fascination on the imagination of the English people. The Celtic hero whose mighty deeds shed all the glories of an autumn sunset on the downfall of the British race, is not regarded as an enemy by the Saxon conquerors; he is to them a truly national king and a Christian, the earliest combination of heroic valour and of Christian feeling which appeared on English soil, the first type of the gentleman England produced; and so he was and so he is to the English the ideal of manhood, the ideal Englishman. Such he appears in the chivalric romances of the middle ages, such in Spenser´s Fairy Queen, - that brilliant revival of the romantic spirit in the age of the Renaissance, - such at last in Tennyson´s Idylls of the King. To a nation of shopkeepers, to a money-getting and selfish generation, to whom case and comfort sometimes seem dearer than national honour, the poet wishes to hold up the image of the man who looks with lofty disdain down upon all meanness and littleness, who stakes his all to set up a standard of human perfection and ideal purity, and nobly perishes in an imperishable cause. And such a man England has seen and called her own in our own time, though she did not fully appreciate him till he was taken away, another Arthur to whose memory Tennyson in his Dedication to the Queen consecrates his Idylls of the King, - Prince Albert in whose life, devoted as it was to the noblest purposes, even the fierce light that beats upon a throne" could disclose no stain, he Who reverenced his conscience at his king; Whose glory was redressing human wrong; Who spake no slander, no, nor listen´d to it; Who loved one only and who clave to her. He is dead, all jealousy is hushed at last, and he is seen now as he was: - How modest, kindly, all-accomplish´d, wise, With what sublime repression of himself - Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses. And so the greatest poet of the England of the age of Victoria lays his greatest poem down at the foot of the throne as a token of sympathy with the great sorrow of the life of his Queen. History of the legends of Arthur; Tennyson´s Sources. The death-struggle of the Celts, once the ruling race of Western Europe, took place in Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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