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A Commentary Upon

Tennyson's In
Memoriam



By
Henry E. Shepherd, M.A., LL.D.
Author of "Life of Robert Edward Lee," etc.
New York and Washington

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1908



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To

My Wife and Daughter

I Dedicate this Commentary,

With Loving Gratitude and

Devoted Affection.
A Commentary Upon
Tennyson's "In Memoriam"

It is impossible to reveal in adequate form
the genius of a great master of either prose
or poetry by mere abstract description, how-
ever faithful in conception or forceful in pre-
sentation that description may be. The con-
crete study of the poets alone reveals their
power — the power of Dante in the Divine
Comedy, Goethe in Faust, Shakespeare in
Hamlet, Milton in Lycidas, Tennyson in In
Memoriam.
