Tennysoniana Author:Richard Herne Shepherd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN MEMORIAM AND SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS. " Yet turn thee to the doubtful shore, Where thy first form was made a man ; I loved thee, Spirit, and love, nor can ... more » The soul of Shakespeare love thee more." CHAPTER IV. IN MEMORIAM AND SHAKESPEABE's SONNETS. It is a remarkable fact that throughout the poems of Tennyson, Shakespeare is mentioned no fewer than six times.1 First, he is placed among the " choice paintings of "wise men " in " The Palace of Art," as— " Shakespeare bland and mild." Second, his epita.ph is quoted as a motto to those stanzas, full of burning indignation, on the poet's fate, in which occur the lines— 1 Not counting the quotation from " Measure for Measure," prefixed to the poem of " Mariana," in the volume of 1S30. Arthur Hallam speaks of this poem as " last, but, oh, not " least—we swear by the memory of Shakespeare, to whom a " monument of observant love has here been raised by sim- " ply expanding all the latent meanings and beauties con. " tained in one stray thought of his genius."—Englishman's Magazine, ttbi suprii. " He gave the people of his best: His worst he kept: his best he gave : My Shakespeare's curse on clown and knave 1 Who will not let his ashes rest." Third, in the opening stanza of the lines entitled " The New Timon and the Poets "— " We know him out of Shakespeare's art, And those fine curses that he spoke, The old Timon, with his noble heart, That strongly loathing, greatly broke." Fourth, in the Prologue to " The Princess "— " This were a medley! we should have him back Who told the Winter's Tale to do it for us." Fifth, in the Sonnet addressed to Macready on his retirement from the stage in 1851: " Farewell, Macready; moral, grave, sublime. Our Shakespeare's bland and universal eye Dwel...« less