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...dangerous thing to do, because I tell you how it should be done then you all have to judge if I’ve done it.” Analyzing and then reading works by poets such as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth and Lord Alfred Tennyson, Abrams emphasized the aural aspects of the works, which he said are often often lost when poems are read silently. In W.H. Auden’s “On This Island,” Abrahms read aloud the line, “The leaping light for your delight discovers...
...Tennyson dreamed of a parliament of man. Woodrow Wilson gave it to us. We have now lived with it in one form or another for almost 100 years. It has not worked. It never will. We should stop being surprised when it doesn...
...must always hang from his shoulders. John Milton was a very interesting, understated dresser. But the literary dilettante I am most inspired by was probably my maternal grandfather. Both my grandfathers were literary dilettantes. That is to say they wrote execrable poetry with great enthusiasm. They had most of Tennyson memorized.THC: How Victorian of them!GT: Edwardian. I’m not of that age yet.THC: Are you inspired by any screen idols? Cary Grant? Gregory Peck? Jimmy Stewart?GT: Oh yes, Cary Grant was a fantastically careful man. In the really old films the men were dressed wonderfully...
...Antler, N.D., was alarmed by plans to shut down the school. He ran ads in three area newspapers offering ground to anyone who would build a house, move in with children and stay at least five years. The ads got national attention. "People started showing up overnight," says Janet Tennyson, 58. She and her husband run the only gas station in town. In a matter of weeks, Kissner found six takers and put them on generous 5-acre or 9-acre tracts. The new families brought in enough kids to keep the school open. But only for a while. Unable...
Despite the many obstacles to successfully producing Princess Ida, director Charles I. Miller ’08 believes the operetta is “a gem.” Miller says he was offended by the apparent misogynism of the operetta, but saw in the Tennyson poem a way around it. Synthesizing the Tennyson poem and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Miller brought lines from the poem into the operetta to change the tone a bit, especially...