...braggart, which she most definitely is not. CHAPTER 8 Head Start and the Self and Self-Concept . . . men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam HEAD START AS CONTEXT The self does not emerge in a vacuum, but is...

...stepping-stone to higher things: See In Memoriam (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), I, ll.1-4: I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. CHAPTER XV i. Timothy: Timothy, to whom St Paul sent his episdes, had charge of the Church at Ephesus,...

...18). 13. The gain/loss motif appears repeatedly in elegiac poetry. For example, Tennyson has written "But who shall so forecast the years / And find in loss a gain to match?" ("In memoriam"; see Sacks, The English Elegy, 172). The prominence of this motif in Rodriguez's work...

...I am When I am I Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are Roy Croft [hold] it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. ALFRED TENNYSON 1 IVE What Would My Ethel Say? I was speaking at a convention in a big city some time...

...Tennyson, "In Memoriam AHH," part 1, stanza 1, lines 3-4. The exact quotation is: I held it truth . . . That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 57. 1 Corinthians 13:1. The original reads: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,...

...Tennyson is less explicit, but he alludes, for instance, in the first section of In Memoriam to Goethe: I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Yet his past belief is now cast in doubt: But who shall so forecast the years And find in loss a gain...

...self-transcendence, though without either the Victorian belief in moral progress (as exhibited in Tennyson's hope "That men may rise on steppingstones / Of their dead selves to higher things") or a vision of stability.1 6 The life narratives in Eliot's poetry are statements of literary theory...

...conformity to social ideals, as the following passage reveals: When asked as a boy to write on topic of '"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things,'" his father responded by saying such topics make boys "'insincere and false to themselves. Ideals make...

...British and American autobiographies, from Carlyle, Mill, and Ruskin to Adams, Yeats, and Edwin Muir: I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. (Tennyson, In Memoriam) Weintraub's book reaches its official climax in romanticism, the heyday of...

...all deliberately called upon and meant to be heard, as the opening lines of section 1 let us know: I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp...stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson will question and complicate his initial Goethean "truth"; for In Memoriam, it turns out,...