hat it wasimpossible for the younger generation to resist. But it was not Mr. Swinburne who first awakenedin me a spirit of reaction against the elder mastersof our generation. Before I read Atalanta inCalydon my imagination had been deeply stirred bythat first volume of Mr. William Morriss… … Holhvr WILLIAM MORRISFrom the painting by G. F. WATTS, R.A., in the National Portrait Gallery. iface page 209. SOME VICTORIAN POETS 209 was the more urgent because Morris too wasattracted by the charm of mediaeval romance—romance which in Tennysons hands had lost some-thing of its primitive…
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