The Poetry Of Tennyson

An interesting study of Tennyson by the noted American poet and critic. The author discusses The Idylls of the King, Milton and Tennyson, The Bible in Tennyson, and includes a chronology of Tennyson's writings.This title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). As President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress, and was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict.