The Organ Grinder in New England Foothills
A poem portrait of a traveling organ grinder seen through rural New England eyes. The figure remains the same yet changes with each return, drawing villagers and children who listen, cheer, and question the man behind the music.
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New England
Badger
Derivations of Alabama and Canada in Verse
A writer comments on Mr Coates Kinney and Miss Katharine MacPherson as they render poetic origins of Alabama and Canada. The piece notes Kinney’s meter and MacPherson’s attempt, contrasting with the native Kannatha etymology, and ends with a performer’s self reflection at age 53 about retiring from the stage.
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Coates Kinney
Alabama
Mr. Kinney
Katherine Livingstone MacPherson
Miss MacPherson
Spain
Hope
Canada
Shenandoah
Wal-le-ah
Writers and a wary age the London Bookman notes
The piece recalls Mr. Weyman eyeing an end to writing yet doubts endure as he may return after The Wild Geese. It recalls Carl Holliday on Nathaniel Ward the Simple Cobbler of Agawam and his grim humor on women. Wordsworth Coleridge are tracked by Home Office spies with a spy paid twenty pounds.
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Stanley Weyman
London Bookman
Weyman
House of the Wolf
Mr. Weyman
Car) Holliday
Sewanee Review
Aggawam
England
Nathaniel Ward
Massachusetts
Ipswich
Ward
Hell
Senate of Heaven
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Alfoxton
Home Office
Wordsworths
Spinoza
Reading tastes shift toward serious literature abroad
A New York canvass finds readers favor biography travel history over fiction. English reports echo this, noting high prices and large editions limit access to serious works. Copyright gaps let notable writings reach mass readers later. Carlyle letters to Hamburg doctor reveal literary lull and sparrow like dawn print. Jusserand cites Paris copy challenging Shakespeare Folio reach.
Idyls Annotated: Tennyson’s Genesis of Arthur Romance
A study outlines how Tennyson conceived the Idyls of the King, detailing the long planned project’s origins and progress, including motivations, sources, and the partial completion of the Arthurian verse cycle.
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Tennyson
Arthur
Tennyson prose on Idylls themes and Arthurian scope
Edward Cary analyzes Ten nyson s Idylls of the King as multi layered poetry with didactic tone and religious patriotism. He notes the Arthurian project from early in Ten nyson s career and cites poetry and prose sketches that shaped Camelot motifs and the eventual epic.
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Tennyson
Enid
Ulysses
Shalott
Sir Launcelot
Guinevere
Galahad
Arthur
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Athenaeum
Sidney Lee
Europe
Berlin
Padus
Jusserand
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King Arthur
Lyonesse
Isles
Scilly
Camelot
King Arthur’s Hall
Holy Minster
John Sterling
the Quarterly
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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the Macmillan Company
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King