...calculates, aspires. And spends more passion, more heroic heat. Betwixt the mirrors of its drawingrooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles. To flinch...or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Isfatal, — foolishtoo. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels...

...Roncesvalles. To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, fs fatal, — foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace...Guenever ; And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. Never flinch, But still, unscrupulously epic, catch Upon the burning lava...

...heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles . . . King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenever, And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. (Book V, 11. 151-222) Similarly, Robert Browning's 'Tray' (1879) disparaged...

...Book 5 of her blank-verse novel: Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...foolish too. King Arthur's self Was commonplace to Lady Guenevere: And Camelot to minstrels seemed as flat As Fleet Street to our poets. (200-13) That Tennyson...

...Charlemagne's. More passion takes place in drawing-rooms than at Roncesvalles with Roland and his knights. 'To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry...for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal - foolish too."8 For living art presents and records real life, and the only life we can truly know is our own....

...aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights at Roncesvalles. To flinch...togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too. (pp. 148—9; V, 189—210) Then come the lines about 'King Arthur's self. This whole passage is partly...