New Studies in Tennyson: Including a Commentary on "Maud" (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from New Studies in Tennyson: Including a Commentary on "Maud"

Such help is needed most of all in the interpreta tion of this popular but difficult work. As will be noticed further on, mistakes are to be met with even in the most recent commentaries on the In Memoriam; and the following Incident may give the reader an idea Of the care required to be taken in any attempt to elucidate the text.

In the year 1881, Mr. Francis Storr, Editor Of the journal of Education, requested me to send to the journal each month some difficult passages from English literature, for the best solution of which he Offered prizes to his readers. On one of these occa sions I selected six passages from the In Memoriam, and, as usual, enclosed my explanations with them. But both the editor and the prize winner differed from me in regard to my interpretation of the follow ing lines in the introductory stanzas.

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