General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II THE POEMS OF 1833 THREE years after the volume of 1830, Tennyson published the little book of 1833, containing thirty new poems. In this second volume he wrought still further at the new veins he had struck, and turned their ore into finer shapes. But he not only developed work he had already begun ; he found fresh and different veins of poetry, opened these also, and made out of their gold new creations full of the spirit of youth hastening to a greater excellence. Evolution then of the subjects discovered in 1830 -- creation of new subjects in 1833 -- these are the matter of this chapter. But first, it is well to mark how the artist, as artist, grows. He cannot cease inventing ; new things, new forms spring up under his hand ; ever uncontent because the unattainable of Beauty lures him on. " If thou givest me," cries Beauty in his heart, " a thousand shapes, there are yet a million more which thou mayest invent for me, and yet I shall not be exhausted." He who feels that allurement and hears that cry has the artist's temper; he who can embody what he feels and hears, in ever varying forms, till old age touch him with inability, is the artist. He moves " from well to better, daily self-surpast," till he has no more power. We know when his power is lessening, for then he begins to repeat himself. We know that it still exist...

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English literature : from a.d 670 to a.d 1832