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    Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was a British poet who studied at Cambridge University and was a member of the secret society called The Apostles. Some of his most famous early poems include "Mariana" and selections from Poems (1832) such as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Lotos-Eaters." Later works include the deeply moving "Crossing the Bar." Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was another British poet and cultural critic whose works reflected the intellectual climate of the late 19th century. Poems such as "Dover Beach" expressed disillusionment with the modern world while his book Culture and Anarchy promoted culture and education as ways to address

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    Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was a British poet who studied at Cambridge University and was a member of the secret society called The Apostles. Some of his most famous early poems include "Mariana" and selections from Poems (1832) such as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Lotos-Eaters." Later works include the deeply moving "Crossing the Bar." Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was another British poet and cultural critic whose works reflected the intellectual climate of the late 19th century. Poems such as "Dover Beach" expressed disillusionment with the modern world while his book Culture and Anarchy promoted culture and education as ways to address

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    Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

    Somersby (Lincolnshire)

    Cambridge University
    The Apostles, Arthur Hallam

    Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)

    from “Mariana”

    The broken sheds looked sad and strange:


        Unlifted was the clinking latch;
        Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
    Upon the lonely moated grange.
            She only said, 'My life is dreary,
                He cometh not,' she said;
            She said, 'I am aweary, aweary,
                I would that I were dead!'

    Poems (1832)
    “The Palace of Art”
    “The Lady of Shalott”

    From: “The Lady of Shalott”:

    By the margin, willow veil'd,


    Slide the heavy barges trail'd
    By slow horses; and unhail'd
    The shallop flitteth silken-sail'd
    Skimming down to Camelot:

    From “The Lotos-Eaters”:

    The Lotos blooms below the barren peak:


    The Lotos blows by every winding creek:
    All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone:
    Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone
    Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotos-dust is blown.
    We have had enough of action, and of motion we,
    From: “Crossing the Bar”:

    For though from out our bourne of Time and Place


    The flood may bear me far,
    I hope to see my Pilot face to face
         When I have crossed the bar.
    Matthew Arnold

    My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a
    century, and they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of
    what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it.
    Matthew Arnold

    “The Scholar-Gypsy” (1853)

    this strange disease of modern life,


    With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
    Its heads o'ertax’d, its palsied hearts …

    “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” (1855)


    … Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
    The other powerless to be born

    “Dover Beach” (1867)

    the world […]


    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
    Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
    And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.

    Culture and Anarchy (1869)

    The whole scope of [this book] is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present
    difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all
    the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world,
    and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock
    notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically …

    “The Study of Poetry” (1888)

    More and more, mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for
    us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most
    of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

    stylistic excellence
    “high seriousness”

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