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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hurch, overwhose portals are inscribed Christs two great com-mandments of love to God and love to man. Tenny-son, like Browning, clung absolutely fast to thelarger hope. That good should fall At last, far off, at last, to all, And every winter change to spring ;That nothing walks with aimless feet, That not one life could be destroyed. Or cast as rubbish in the voidWhen God has made the pile complete. Yes, all the greatest poets and thinkers are of thatreligion which has nothing to do with the littlepassions of the sects and the parties ; of that religionwherein the meek, the pious, the devout are all one.He ends his great In Memoriam with the words : That God, who ever lives and moves.One God, one law, one element.And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves. To this religion their poems were utterly faithful,and this—which is the true Catholic faith of theApostles Creed and the Lords Prayer and the Ser-mon on the Mount—this faith they kept whole andundefiled. UM
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ISSO). a7?o.)K.^:^ORrB IN THELAUREATE LINE: PAST INCUMBENTS. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. THE LATE POET LAUREATE. AS might be expected, all the more journalistic ofthe English reviews have their due quota ofarticles on Tennyson. The New Review gives thefirst place to a brightly written but somewhat para-doxical and affected paper by Mr. Edmund Gosse,which is followed by another by Mr. Paul, of theDaily News. Mr. Gosse thinks that the genuine loversof verse are extremely few, and that the splendid po-sition of poetry at the summit of the civil ornaments•of the Empire is built on ice, and it is kept there bybluff on the part of a small influential class. Thegreat gathering in the Abbey strikes Mr. Gosse as asinister exhibition. Democracy doth protest too much.The poet is held to be better than is poetry, and theartist than the art: Tennyson had grown to be byfar the most mysterious, august and singular figurein English society. He represented poetry, and theworld now expects its poe

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