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Locksley Hall, of
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Maud, of
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Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
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You can't think how poor a figure you make when you tell that story, sir, said Dr. Johnson to some unlucky gentleman whose
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Idylls, is like an Albert in blank verse, an Albert cursed with a Guinevere for a wife, and a Lancelot for friend. The
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Idylls, with all their beauties, are full of a Victorian respectability, and love of talking with Vivien about what is not so respectable. One wishes, at times, that the
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Morte d'Arthur had remained a lonely and flawless fragment, as noble as Homer, as polished as Sophocles. But then we must have missed, with many other admirable things, the
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Last Battle in the West.
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Will Waterproof's Monologue, so far above Praed, to the agony of
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Rizpah, the invincible energy of
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Ulysses, the languor and the fairy music of the
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Lotus Eaters, the grace as of a Greek epigram which inspires the lines to Catullus and to Virgil. He is with Milton for learning, with Keats for magic and vision, with Virgil for graceful recasting of ancient golden lines, and, even in the latest volume of his long life,
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as Homer says,