This Chance Remark Sent Me Back To The Poems With
a fresh surmise. I felt bound to admit that there was some- thing in what my friend had said. The Dorian strain does certainly lend itself readily to regrets for undergraduate......
My Friend, Delighted Though He Was By My Grudging Acceptance
of his major premise, refused to allow that In Memoriam was in any sense composed around the theme of A. H. H. Here again, he said, one had the elegy upon the poet's own lost......
Then There Are His Letters. Some Years Ago, When Lectur-
ing to a women's college in the United States, I was con- ducted over their library. I asked them to show me their particular treasures. There were the usual collection of first......
I Was Shocked By This Suggestion. In My Own Generation
there were many inheritors of unfulfilled renown who, were they alive today, might not perhaps have lived up to their own legend. I was willing to admit that King might have......
People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON I ENJOY desultory conversation, since it leads to chance remarks and since chance remarks may often tempt one to alter the furniture of one's mind. We are so......
Was Hallam Dull? I Wish I Knew The Answer To
that question. The figure which emerges from Mr. Gladstone's heavy eulogy, as indeed from many passages of In Memoriam, is on the priggish side. Moreover, Monckton Milnes did......
My Friend Began By Stating That Our Best Memorial Verses
were elegiac verses, and that no strictly memorial verses could be called great poetry. I suggested that Tennyson's Ode to the Duke of Wellington was very nearly great poetry......
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