Note 9 — Chapter VI · Tennyson’s Influence—The Diction of Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne

Heraclitus, by William Cory. Cory (Johnson by birth) was a very occasional poet, but when he wrote like this Tennyson himself could have done it no better, although no less an authority than Professor Gilbert Murray, in an instructive paper on verse translation, has recently complained, quite unaccountably as it seems to me, that the poem fails by reason of triviality in diction and rhythm.