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This Historic Book May Have Numerous Typos And Missing Text. Purchasers Can Download A Free Scanned Copy Of The Original Book (without Typos) From The Publisher. Not Indexed. Not Illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... In The Following Stanzas, Ulysses Is Represented, Even In Old Age, Flinging Himself Into Doing And Duty, That--some Work Of Noble Note May Yet Be Done, Not Unbecoming Men That Strove With Gods. How Sublimely The Poet Sings The Truth, Central To All These Poems, That Love In Sacrifice And Service Can Alone Bring Out The Best And Richest Life, While The Soul Self-centred Shrinks Into Littleness And Nothingness! We Have Thus Far Traced The Conflict Of Soul _ With Various Forms Of Seductive Evil. The Ethical Truth Which Gleams Through These Poems, That Highest Life Is Only Found When Being Awakes To Conflict With The Deathful Forces That Surround It, We Shall Now Find Sounding Deeper Depths And Scaling Heigher Heights In In Memoriam. On Its Artistic Side In Memoriam F Contains The Different Moods Of Sorrow, As In A Drama, Are Dramatically Given, And My Conviction That Fear, Doubts, And Suffering Will Find Answer And Relief Only Through Faith In A God Of Love. 'i' Is Not Always The Author Speaking Of Himself, But The Voice Of The Human Race Speaking Through Him.--tennyson, A Memoir, I., P. 304. My Father Sometimes Called 'in Memoriam' 'the Way Of The Soul.' --ibid, I., P. 394. T A Few Of The Incidental Odes, Not Necessary To The Main Subject, Are Omitted In This Analysis. A Gallery Of Pictures. The Poet-painter Has One Subject In His Mind--grief. In Dealing With Its Lights And Shades, Hopes And Fears, He Paints And Frames A Gallery Of Portraits, In Which We May See The Soul Wrestling With The Problems That Start Out Of The Deep Of Personality, Or Come Out Of The Darkling Shadows Of Death To Haunt Imagination. Through All We See The Face Of Grief Asking--why Was My Love Stolen? Does He Live With God, Or With Death? Does He Recall The Past, Or Live...Book Details
Published
December 1, 2009
Publisher
General Books
Pages
172
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781150634215