This
affected
phrase was
altered to the present reading in 1845.
altered to the present reading in 1845.
Tennyson
Mild.
]
[Footnote 5: 'Cf. ' Gray's Alcaic stanza on West's death:--
O lacrymarum fons tenero sacros
'Ducentium ortus ex animo'. ]
[Footnote 6: 1833. Sunken sun. Altered to present reading, 1842. The
image may have been suggested by Henry Vaughan, 'Beyond the Veil':--
Their very memory is fair and bright,
. . .
It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast Like stars
. . .
Or those faint beams in which the hill is drest
After the sun's remove. ]
[Footnote 7: 1833, 1842, 1843. My tablets.
This affected phrase was
altered to the present reading in 1845. ]
[Footnote 8: 1833. Holy. Altered to "only," 1842. ]
[Footnote 9: 1833. Altho' to calm you I would take. Altered to present
reading, 1842. ]
"YOU ASK ME WHY, THO' ILL AT EASE. . . "
This is another poem which, though included among those belonging to
1833, was not published till 1842. It is an interesting illustration,
like the next poem but one, of Tennyson's political opinions; he was, he
said, "of the same politics as Shakespeare, Bacon and every sane man".
He was either ignorant of the politics of Shakespeare and Bacon or did
himself great injustice by the remark. It would have been more true to
say--for all his works illustrate it--that he was of the same politics
as Burke. He is here, and in all his poems, a Liberal-Conservative in
the proper sense of the term. At the time this trio of poems was written
England was passing through the throes which preceded, accompanied and
followed the Reform Bill, and the lessons which Tennyson preaches in
them were particularly appropriate.
[Footnote 5: 'Cf. ' Gray's Alcaic stanza on West's death:--
O lacrymarum fons tenero sacros
'Ducentium ortus ex animo'. ]
[Footnote 6: 1833. Sunken sun. Altered to present reading, 1842. The
image may have been suggested by Henry Vaughan, 'Beyond the Veil':--
Their very memory is fair and bright,
. . .
It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast Like stars
. . .
Or those faint beams in which the hill is drest
After the sun's remove. ]
[Footnote 7: 1833, 1842, 1843. My tablets.
This affected phrase was
altered to the present reading in 1845. ]
[Footnote 8: 1833. Holy. Altered to "only," 1842. ]
[Footnote 9: 1833. Altho' to calm you I would take. Altered to present
reading, 1842. ]
"YOU ASK ME WHY, THO' ILL AT EASE. . . "
This is another poem which, though included among those belonging to
1833, was not published till 1842. It is an interesting illustration,
like the next poem but one, of Tennyson's political opinions; he was, he
said, "of the same politics as Shakespeare, Bacon and every sane man".
He was either ignorant of the politics of Shakespeare and Bacon or did
himself great injustice by the remark. It would have been more true to
say--for all his works illustrate it--that he was of the same politics
as Burke. He is here, and in all his poems, a Liberal-Conservative in
the proper sense of the term. At the time this trio of poems was written
England was passing through the throes which preceded, accompanied and
followed the Reform Bill, and the lessons which Tennyson preaches in
them were particularly appropriate.
