The Homes of Tennyson
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Mr. Lecky, in the reminiscences already referred to, says : " Nature had evidently intended him (the Poet) for the life of the quietest and most secluded of country gentlemen, for a life spent among books and flowers and a few intimate friends, and very remote from the noise and controversies of the great world. " In a sense this was true. But there was another side.
"A great gift, " the historian continues, "had made his name a household word among the English race. " It was something more eve...n than this gift which made Tennyson the man he was, — something in his nature greater even than poetic genius, — that 48 THE HOMES OF TENNYSON quality which some men call "religion, " others " goodness, " and which, had he been only a plough- man, would have enabled him to leave the world " a little better than he found it, " but which, as he was a poet, endowed him with a power few others have possessed.
He would not tolerate meanness or unworthi- ness in the highest genius, and with all the strength that was in him gave the he to the creed which, if it were to become universally accepted, would debase all true art, and, ultimately, mankind ; the creed which rules that if a thing is perfectly painted, made, or expressed, it must be " great, " no matter how loathsome or obscene the subject may be.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Mr. Lecky, in the reminiscences already referred to, says : " Nature had evidently intended him (the Poet) for the life of the quietest and most secluded of country gentlemen, for a life spent among books and flowers and a few intimate friends, and very remote from the noise and controversies of the great world. " In a sense this was true. But there was another side.
"A great gift, " the historian continues, "had made his name a household word among the English race. " It was something more eve...n than this gift which made Tennyson the man he was, — something in his nature greater even than poetic genius, — that 48 THE HOMES OF TENNYSON quality which some men call "religion, " others " goodness, " and which, had he been only a plough- man, would have enabled him to leave the world " a little better than he found it, " but which, as he was a poet, endowed him with a power few others have possessed.
He would not tolerate meanness or unworthi- ness in the highest genius, and with all the strength that was in him gave the he to the creed which, if it were to become universally accepted, would debase all true art, and, ultimately, mankind ; the creed which rules that if a thing is perfectly painted, made, or expressed, it must be " great, " no matter how loathsome or obscene the subject may be.
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