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Updated: May 10, 2025
He belonged to the Church of England, and doubtless thought as he pleased, but ever expressed himself with caution. It is easy to accuse Tennyson of being insular to say that he is merely "the poet of England." Had he been more he would have been less. World-poets have usually been revolutionists, and dangerous men who exploded at an unknown extent of concussion.
Most of the wireless news is not only wireless, but it is in cipher hence prophets, or men who have great sensitiveness; men whose souls and bodies are films for the future, platinum plates for the lights and shadows of events; men who are world-poets, sensitive to the air-waves and the light-waves of truth, to the faintest vibrations from To-morrow, or from the next hundred years hovering just ahead.
Where there is no specific difference, as between round and square, all definition must be more or less arbitrary. A man that has so much more of the poetic element developed in him as to have become noticeable, will be called Poet by his neighbors. World-Poets too, those whom we are to take for perfect Poets, are settled by critics in the same way.
But it is a little difficult to make certain of the precise nature of Mr. Bailey's criticism. When he speaks of Racine's vision not including 'the whole of life, when he declares that Racine cannot be reckoned as one of the 'world-poets, he seems to be taking somewhat different ground and discussing a more general question.
But even all this would not have made him one of the three or four world-poets, would not have won for him the wreath of universal European translation.
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