Show DEATH OF TENNYSON AT half past one this morning mornine the spirit of the poet laureate of england took its flight alfred tennyson was born in the year 1810 at somerby lincolnshire Lincoln shire the family from which he sprung was a large one he being the third the touch of the enuse was manifested at a very early age and in 1827 a little volume entitled poems of two brothers made its appearance being as its ita name indicates the joint prod production uc of himself and his hie brother charles it attracted but slight alight attention and soon goon became entirely obsolete he went to trinity college cambridge to complete hla his education and there two years after the appearance of the ill starred brothers brother 9 his big merits merit as an a poet received recognition through a composition entitled timbuctoo 11 f for which he be received the chancellors Chancellor 8 modal medal this production contained all ali the characteristics of his peculiar style and was waa regarded at that time as the precursor of great things tb illge prom from this point he proceeded on in his hie rhythmic career and in 1842 his hia moema in two volumes volume were received by the public in a mannor manner bordering on the rapturous and the author was at once installed initial led in the place which he has ever since held partly by merit but principally by common consent the laurel crowned songster of the realm it were ere a superfluous task to discuss the merits or demerits of sons works his bis name to is made and his fame insecure is secure like the great commander wellington the canonizing canon izing of whom in verile erse at the flatters lat death was one of the poet laureates best beat efforts he gained a place from which he could not and cannot be toppled without reference to special merit and without taking providential intervention into account it may however be said that all of his poetry was not the equal of some parts of it that he gave birth to rhymes couplets quatrains qua trains and so on descriptive of nothing no thina augir tive of nothing and accomplishing nothing ot hing this in language which it would be the rarest charity to call quaint so grossly at variance with any olaes class of syntax phraseology or permissive construction was it but the next sentence might be one that glowed with a soulful fervor and accomplished in words and measure as graceful pointed and aad exact as any that ever fell from the pen of a macaulay a gibbon or the immortal pope himself he was truly a wonderful man and his bis departure from th this Is sphere of action will not be chronicled as an event whose consequence will oot not be felt |