PROBABLY TENNYSON'S SUCCESSOR.
Loed Rosslyn's Poetry Pleases Her
Majesty Queen Victoria.
toRD RossLYJT has been very ill, but is now getting well again. This does not sound like news, but ib has an interest all its own, for he is one of those mentioned as likely to be Poeb Laureate, provided he outlives liQru Tennyson. We have too many poets at the present time ; we don'b know whab to do with bhem, and when Tennyson dies there will probably be a struggle for bhe Laureateship the like of which has never been known. Those who profess to know the inside of things say that tbe Queen has taade up her mind that Lord Rosslyn shall succeed to it, which, of course, would settle matters, for it is one of the few posts absolutely in her own gifb. The worst of ib ia bhab outside court circles no one ever heard of Lord Rosslyn's poetry till lately, and those who have heard erf ib lately don't think much of it. It conBiets of such things as poems to ' Lady Smith,' the ' Earl of Beaconsfield,' to ' Lady 1 , . C., , 'Lord ' Ravensworbh,' and other members of the aristocracy, with a few others on very trite subjects, and none of them rise above the level of respectable yeree. He wrote an ode on the Jubilee; indeed thab was the firsS that most of us heard of him. He went about with ib seeking whom he mighb devour—or, rather, who would publish him. Ho showed it to the Queen. Luckily for him, she liked it and commanded him to print ib. A paragraph to the effect appeared in bhe papers, and next day there was a procession of eager magazine editors chasing him across country and bombarding him with telegrams. — London letter in ' Philadelphia iimee.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)
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