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Princess Ida differs from most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Gilbert and Sullivan were famous for popularizing the opera with their simple prose and topsy-turvy plots. Not only is Princess Ida written in blank verse, its characters and basic plot line are taken from a quite serious poem by Tennyson...
...like this. As recently as the mid--19th century, historians of the novel tell us, there was only one heap. Dickens wrote best-selling novels, but they weren't considered "commercial" or "popular" or "your-euphemism-here." They were just novels. No one looked down on Scott and Tennyson and Stowe for being wildly successful. No one got all embarrassed when they were caught reading the new Edgar Allan Poe over lunch...
Buckley authored several books during his lifetime, including The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture (1951), Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet (1960) and The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since...
...Professor. Since 1917 he has been an Associate Professor. Besides this book, Professor Copeland has written several articles in the Atlantic Monthly and "The Life of Edwin Booth", besides editing "The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his Youngest Sister", with an introductory essay, in collaboration with Mr. Rideout on Tennyson's "The Princess...
...water. I returned to the Berkley campaign the next day, far away from ex-felons and homeless instigators. Back into the world of candidates’ forums and fundraisers, to speaking engagements and late nights. I was back to nights marked by sweaty sleep and parched throats. Back, as Tennyson wrote, “into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell.” But I wouldn’t trade my stories, my summer or the desert sun for anything. It is, after all, only dry heat...