The Social Ideals of Alfred Tennyson As Related to His Time
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* P. 221. 128 SOCIAL IDEALS OF ALFRED TENNYSON As one of the " signs of storm *' he speaks of " Art with poisonous honey stol'n from France." * Equally significant lines occur in " Locksley Hall Sixty Years After": France had shown a light to all men, preach'd a Gospel, All men's good ; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.* Paris was to him " the centre and crater of Euro- pean confusion." ® As a young man he spent some time in France, but never became an en- thu...siastic admirer of the French character. He said : " I am struck on returning from France with the look of good sense in the London peo- ple." '' The reader may draw his own inference as to the poet's opinion of the looks of the Pari- sians. Tennyson quotes John Kemble's phrase, " the moral barbarism of France," as if it were worth repeating for the truth it contains, and this barbarism was manifested in the affairs of state as perhaps nowhere else. Emily Tennyson was in Paris in 1848, after the revolution against Louis Philippe had begun.
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