Dr. Grosart seems to have finally decided the
identity of the heroine of this great poem. It is worth while to
explain, once for all, that I do not use the accented e for the
longer pronunciation of the past participle. The accent is not an
English sign, and, to my mind, disfigures the verse; neither do I
think it necessary to cut off the e with an apostrophe when the
participle is shortened. The reader knows at a glance how the word
is to be numbered; besides, he may have his preferences where
choice is allowed. In reading such a line as Tennyson's
"Dear as remembered kisses after death,"
one man likes the familiar sound of the word "remembered" as we all
speak it now; another takes pleasure in the four light syllables
filling the line so full. Tennyson uses the apostrophe as a rule,
but neither he nor any other author is quite consistent.
ROSALYND'S MADRIGAL
It may please the reader to think that this frolic, rich, and
delicate singer was Shakespeare's very Rosalind. From Dr. Thomas
Lodge's novel, Euphues' Golden Legacy, was taken much of the story,
with some of the characters, and some few of the passages, of As
You Like It.
ROSALINE
This splendid poem (from the same romance), written on the poet's
voyage to the Islands of Terceras and the Canaries, has the fire
and freshness of the south and the sea; all its colours are clear.
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