Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Two Voices and a Dream of Fair Women
Tennyson's muse has been productive of a body of lyric, idyllic, metaphysical, and narrative or descriptive poetry, the choicest, rarest, daintiest, and of the most exquisite workman ship Of any that the century has to show. In a strictly dramatic direction he can hardly be said to have been successful. His Queen Mary is but little short of a failure as a drama, and his Harold but a partial success. With action proper he has shown but little sympathy, and in the domain of vicarious thinking and feeling, in which Robert Browning is so pre-emi nent, but little ability. But no one who is well acquainted with all the best poetry of the nineteenth century, will hesitate to pronounce him facile princeps in the domain Of the lyric and idyllic; and in these departments of poetry he has developed a style at once individual and, in an artistic point of view, almost faultily faultless - a style which may be traced from his ear liest efforts up to the most complete perfection of his latest poetical works.
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