...Oriental island paradise: There the passions cramped no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair,...

...process of the suns. 11532 'Locksley Hall' Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 11533 'Locksley Hall' Locksley Hall' Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. 1152S 'Locksl 11534 'Locksley Hall' I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. 11535 'Locksley Hall'...

...Triumphant: Bane or Benefit? Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea. There...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind. Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1842) URNER WAS BORN INTO AN AGE galvanized by revolution....

...the lure of the tropics and to the contrasting imperative to identify with the values of his nation: 'I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race' he fantasizes (perhaps in the wake of an uncritical reading of 'Anacaona'); only to repress the vision...

...through the century as a refoge from the pressures of an increasingly mechanised and demanding world: 'There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this...the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind'. And always behind the impulse to escape there is the same insistent erotic keynote:...

...for themselves and their posterity, they might well form the resolve expressed in Tennyson's lines: 'I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race'" (35). In this way, Croly implies that people of color provide the body, the sexuality, to sustain whites....

...by imagination, beauty, or passion than by the rush for progress characterized in "Locksley Hall," "in this march of mind / In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind" (ll.165-66). Sinfield describes the process cogently: "Finding imaginative impetus marginalized...

...for themselves and their posterity, they might well form the resolve expressed in Tennyson's lines: 'I will take some savage woman,- she shall rear my dusky race' " (35). In this way, Croly implies that people of color provide the body, the sexuality, to sustain...

...world elsewhere: "Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavyfruited tree — / Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea./ There methinks would be employment more than in this march of mind,/ In the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that...

...industrial society and that "There the passions cramped no longer shall/ have scope and breathing space;/ I will take some savage woman, she shall rear/ my dusky race" (168-71). Both the romantic escapism and the fundamental condescension and racism of the passage help...