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Excerpt from Tennyson's Message to Our Generation: A Lecture
The long-expected and eagerly-welcomed biography of Tennyson is more than a mere record of what he did and wrote. It is also an interpretation of his message. There was no discord between the singer and his song. He lived a brave and beautiful life. The. Exaggerations of certain peculiarities and the misconceptions fostered by certain irresponsible stories fade away, and we see clearly for the first time the man, so Simple in his thor ough simplicity, so devoted to the highest ideals of his art, and so absorbed in the solemnities and mysteries of the universe, that he was ever content to keep the upper windows of his mind open to the holy winds and the pure lights of heaven. Admirers of the poet are thank ful to have an authoritative assurance that he was not the rough, gruff, unkindly being so many reports picture. On the contrary, what be valued most, and valued more and more as life advanced, was kindness.
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