CHAPTER VII

Is it well to imitate Shakespeare?--The Death of the Classical Drama--Herman Merivale and the _White Pilgrim_--Wills and his Plays: _Charles the First_, _Claudian_--Tennyson as a Dramatist; he comes too soon and too late--Tennyson and the Critics--_The Falcon_, _The Promise of May_, _The Cup_, _Becket_, _Queen Mary_, _Harold_ 174