The book The Age of Tennyson was written by author Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939 Here you can read free online of The Age of Tennyson book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Age of Tennyson a good or bad book?
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Its chief merit is width of sympathy ; and it also contains here and there hints that promise in ^ the future reach of thought. In Balder we see this pro- mise redeemed. It is far more forcible than The Roman and it is loaded with thought. Balder was a poem of vast design. It was to be in three parts, of which only Digitized by Google ^48 tHE AGE Ot tfiUNtSOir. I one was ever published. The purpose was, in the words of the author's preface, to trace ' the progress of a human being from Doubt to... Faith, from Chaos to Order. Not of Doubt incarnate to Faith incarnate, but of a doubtful mind to a faithful mind.' The design therefore bears a certain general resemblance to that of Paracehus, Balder is not equal to that great poem. It is even more diffi- cult while less profound, and it is especially far less of a unity. It is, strictly speaking, paradoxical to regard as a whole what proclaims itself as a part ; but a part of a great design may have completeness in itself, and this Balder has not.
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