A NEW work by Tennyson is the best gift that literature has had in her bestowal for these many years ; and this last volume, with its familiar grace and charm, renews the old pleasure. His art has ...

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“ THIS dramatic monologue,” as Tennyson describes the title-poem of his latest volume 1 in his dedication of it to his wife, has met with little justice at the hands of the public. Just how much the ...

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To help usher in the new year, our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor wants us to seize the spirit of the day. TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE: By the time this week rolls around where we all unplug a little and dream a ...

Asked who was the greatest French poet of the 19th century, André Gide cruelly replied, “Victor Hugo, alas!” We might be tempted to say something similar of English poetry: “Tennyson, alas!” Whitman ...