Most of Lord de Tabley's contemporaries by birth belong rather to the subsequent period than to the Age of Tennyson. Even Swinburne did so, though before 1870 he had, by the publication of _Atalanta in Calydon_ (1865), enriched English literature with one of its most perfect dramas on the Greek model, and by the _Poems and Ballads_ (1866) had 'raised a storm, and founded a school.' The fact that he founded a school makes him rather the poetical leader of the present generation than a member of the preceding one. In some ways Lord de Tabley has more affinity to this later band than to those who were under the dominion of Carlyle and Browning and Tennyson. He certainly shows the workings of a new spirit, and seems to feel the old ideals insufficient; but his twenty years of literary eclipse serve to fix him chronologically rather among the older men. For a different reason William Morris, a man just one year older than De Tabley, also belongs, as a poet, to this period. Morris was a man who played many parts in life, and he played them not concurrently, but rather successively. In his characters as high priest of domestic art and as prophet to the Socialists he is identified with the closing quarter of the century; while his greatest achievements in poetry belong to the third quarter. _The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems_ (1858) was his first volume of verse. Then after nine years came _The Life and Death of Jason_, followed almost immediately by _The Earthly Paradise_ (1868-1870). Morris afterwards translated the _Æneid_ and the _Odyssey_, and he also did much to make familiar in England the spirit of Icelandic literature. His _Sigurd the Volsung_ (1876) is certainly the finest English poem inspired by Scandinavia, and perhaps his greatest work.