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SERJEANT REV. W.C. A.W. KING- DR. HAMILTON
JOHN KING- KINGLAKE LAKE KINGLAKE.
LAKE. ("Eothen.")
{3} "Eothen," p. 33. Reading "Timbuctoo" to-day one is amazed it
should have gained the prize. Two short passages adumbrate the
coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense. "What do you think
of Tennyson's prize poem?" writes Charles Wordsworth to his brother
Christopher. "Had it been sent up at Oxford, the author would have
had a better chance of spending a few months at a lunatic asylum
than of obtaining the Prize." A current Cambridge story at the
time explained the selection. There were three examiners, the
Vice-Chancellor, a man of arbitrary temper, with whom his juniors
hesitated to disagree; a classical professor unversed in English
Literature; a mathematical professor indifferent to all literature.
The letter g was to signify approval, the letter b to brand it with
rejection.
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