A Tennyson Dictionary - The Characters And Place Names Contained In The Poetical And Dramatic Works Of The Poet - Alphabetically Arranged And Described With Synopses Of The Poems And Plays Alphabetically Arranged and Described With Synopses of the Poems and Plays

A TENNYSON DICTIONARY Be icateb To the Memory of CLARA, Who, after an illness borne with fortitude and patience, passed away on May 31st, 1914. INTRODUCTORY NOTE THE success which has attended the publication of my Tennyson Con cordance in 1912, has prompted me to undertake the compilation of this Dictionary. The book is intended as a work of reference for all lovers of Tenny sons works. Its principal function is to identify and describe the multitudinous characters, place-names, etc. whether fictitious or historical created or utilized by the Poet anything, therefore, in the nature of criticism is entirely outside its scope. The two chief features claimed for this compilation are brevity and accuracy. The Synopses furnish a short explanatory account of the Poems and Plays, and the Dictionary proper a short description of the characters and place-names, together with the names of towns, rivers, horses, birds, flowers, etc. In all there are some 2,040 entries. A list of the books consulted or quoted throughout the work is appended and for the valuable information obtained from them I take this opportunity of expressing my acknowledgments. A. E. B. vu SYNOPSES OF THE POEMS AND PLAYS ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH. A rendering of the Iliad xviii. 202, recounting the help given to Achilles by Pallas and the consequent rout of the Trojans. ADELINE. Five stanzas written to a certain spiritual Adeline to describe her charms. AKBARS BREAM. A supposed conversation in blank verse between Akbar, the great Mogul who ruled India from 1565 to 1605 A. D., and his intimate friend Abul Fazl. The poem is prefaced by a quotation from the writings of Abul Fazl, Akbar was one of the most tolerant rulers who everlived. No creeds were condemned by him, and he invented a new religion which aimed at being a sort of epitome of the best in all beliefs. In this poem, he tells Abul Fazl that the cause of a temporary depression is the shadow cast by an evil dream. He then ex pounds his theory of life and religion to Abul. His opinion is that God is in all creeds and that the one intolerable thing T. D, is intolerance. But now and then a doubt asserts itself as when he is troubled by dreams such as the one that he has recently dreamed. In it, he thought he had built 6 a sacred fane, A temple, neither Pagod, Mosque, nor Church, in which people of all creeds might worship, and in which might dwell Truth and Peace And Love and Justice But while he and Abul stood looking at, and rejoicing in their work there was tumult, and in burst Akbars well-loved son Saleem, and slew both his father and Abul. Death however had ears and eyes and Akbar saw his son despoiling the fair building and ruining a life-work. After a time came some people from the west, an alien race, and again built up the law of toleration and equity, abolishing such monstrous prac tices as suttee and child-mar riage. The poem ends with a morning hymn to the Timeless in the flame that measures Time ALEX ALEXANDER. A Sonnet to Alexander, de scribing him as Warrior of God, whose strong right arm debased The throne of Persia, 5 ALL THINGS WILL DIE. A lament that the inevitable end of all things, however beautiful and full of life, is death. Even the blue river, and the south winds will cease, And the old earth must die. AMPfflON. The supposed writer of this rather merry poem had been left a park by his father. The poem voices his regret that he wasnot born in the days when c Old Amphion 9 sat down and sung, and left a small plantation In those days, Nature was So youthful and so flexile You moved her at your pleasure. 3 and trees sprang up at the twanging of a fiddle. But in such a brassy age as the pre sent, months of toil, And years of cultivation are needed to make at the end of all A little garden blossom ANCIENT SAGE. An ancient sage gives a young man of fashion good advice in the form of a commentary on a despairing song which the latter had written...