PECULIARITIES of TENNYSON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6948, 23 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

PECULIARITIES of TENNYSON.

say aV:V;Tehnya6iafpass'esVrQOst : :'.pf : ;hi3, days' at. romantic scenery^for;whiohitliejls]e6n\igW: :ie noted; JHe'spehds on''an/average'sixto eight: hours a dayVinJiis'library, "engaged: iuliterary, 'work./j.Orders; are always'giyeathat.heshall; .not' be .interrnpted * except':, for -most .momeii'.. ,toas reasons,*aDd he .neveri.is j^forrthejiJiem , .bera of hie family and hia]servants":!think,fii« making of: a line of ? <juitei"as mu'cfiiimpprtance , ; asj the;■; creation of a : new':wprldW.an'.'.6pinion which.iitis'needlesa to say.jhe; fully,; ■Perhaps ifjhia'wife—she.was;Emily:Sellwoo(l ■7—were dying shc;might. yen tore :t6;have,h:ni. anformedof the fact during his hours pf.work.: ■She would not be willing,that.-hisjMnctniry. ; should be profaned for anyless capse,i because; 'she ■ believes;;that::William>^Shakeapeare f iS: {scarcely .the;'eqnaUof'Alfred;;!renpyspi ; yt: she were capable of formiogfpr chenamngajjy 'other opinion;: it is doubtful if,h'e"would; hw ] with;her^ ? v; She ; probably! preserves :fcffi^?" ; ;nubial place by.the most;,rapturous:-worsaip and the most absolute self-effacement;.- 'K ■havebeen'awful instances ; of;thei;inv«ion.o!: .Tennyson'silibrary while he was in the.throe> "of 'cotripositibnV owing to the 1 relaxed vigilance ■pf: ; {his-:domesticVdragons.f' ■followed can hardly be described.'; The poet,, in;his^svratb/raged-.like, to : destroy-the intruder and literally■ tearing ttie. (little hair "he has left: '" The'yery rupting. Alfred ■< Tennyson,, in hie. hours: (H ; ! ;divine inspiration 'seemed 'to.him crime: iunpardonableVif ;He has never; :libeliev;e>.inaM : ; ■■any.:physicai; : assanlt upon .an .anfortanaie, 'intrdder;.; thought it wbuld : have been- snpr. posed, from'his farioua demopstrations;.twi :he>ould be appeased; with', nothipgihoinicider-;. ;;.V ..'.'.'t' , ~'.'.-. ■ ■ . , •■.