When it arrived he was found out.

And he stood alone, for Tennyson is never impressionist, and never could have been.

Neither was Swinburne nor Arnold, Morris nor Rossetti.
3.

Again, in the leisured upper ranges of thought and emotion, and in the extraordinary complexity of human life which arose, first, out of the more intimate admixture of all classes in our society; and secondly, out of the wider and more varied world-life which increased means of travel and knowledge afforded to men, Tennyson's smooth, melodious, simple development of art-subjects did not represent the clashing complexity of human life, whether inward in the passions, the intellect or the soul, or in the active movement of the world.

And the other poets were equally incapable of representing this complexity of which the world became clearly conscious.