Excerpt from The Idylls and the Ages: A Valuation of Tennyson's Idylls of the King
The promise, made to the present Lord Tennyson in the year after the poet died, has remained all this time more or less in meditation but unfulfilled; partly on account of other intervening duties, and partly because, with me, time and its tempering insights seemed necessary to bring that just view and proportion of things which a poem that had been intimately enmeshed with my youthful enthusiasms demanded.
"Wait: my faith is large in Time,
And that which shapes it to some perfect end,"
wrote Tennyson of one of his searching experiences. It behooved the student of his most cherished work to wait until he could write for a generation to whom Tennyson's captivating poetry had not been a daily education. For the rest, the judgment is now in the hands of my readers.
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