A FINAL WORD ON 'ULYSSES'
A great deal was said in last year's Tennyson Research Bulletin about the use by the organisers of the 2012 Olympics of the last lines of Tennyson's Ulysses as a carved inscription along the wall outside the Athletes' Village): To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. I was struc...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Tennyson research bulletin 2013-11, Vol.10 (2), p.186-186 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A great deal was said in last year's Tennyson Research Bulletin about the use by the organisers of the 2012 Olympics of the last lines of Tennyson's Ulysses as a carved inscription along the wall outside the Athletes' Village): To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. I was struck once more by the resonance this line has with the prayer, frequently used by our deputy headmaster at school in the 1940s, of St Ignatius Loyola though some attribute the prayer to St Xavier. |
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| ISSN: | 0082-2841 |