Excerpt from Lord Tennyson and the BibleTennyson and Koheleth - in Dr. Plumptre's Ecclesiastes, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools. It is an admirable example of exact work in this department. In it the learned author (whose recent decease has occasioned widespread regret) traces the parallelism of Tennyson in the In Memoriam, The Vision of Sin, The Two Voices, and The Palace of Art, with the Confessions of the Debater, whom he supposes to be an Alexandrian Jew, who, writing about 200 years before the Christian era, adopted the dramatic personation of Solomon's character as a form of authorship. The most important contribution, however, that has yet been made to the study of Tennyson's knowledge and use of the Bible is the work Of an American divine - the Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D., of New York City. It appears as an appendix to a' volume entitled The Poetry of Tennyson. The Biblical. Allusions there given number 282. The. Author appends a note, in which he says, This list is probably very far from being complete. With the joy of a genuine explorer, Dr. Van Dyke exults in the fact that the delight of 'fresh woods and pastures new'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.