Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate a Brief Study of His Life And Poetry
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The importunate questions of human life and destiny thronged upon his soul. " l This private loss drew to itself the age-long agony of the world ; it started all the hard, stony, Sphinx-like problems that have confronted men as they have faced the wrongs and miseries of the world. But he met it all manfully. As Professor Dowden says : " Tennyson did not, like Newman, silence his doubts and still his troubles as a weary child in the old blind nurse's lap. " He neither surrendered his spiritual f...reedom and the mighty hopes that make us men ; nor did he hide himself away, afraid to look at the cold, ruthless assaults that were made upon them. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make Ins judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own. " Only twice during those years did he break the silence, and then under great pressure. In 1837 he contributed the exquisite poem " St. Agnes " to The Keepsake, edited by Lady Wortley, and the same year to The Tribute, edited by Lord North- ampton, he sent the stanzas 1 "The Poetry of Tennyson, " by H.
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