Lord Tennyson: A Biographical SketchChatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1884 - 270 pages |
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... printed in his " Remains , " was written in the terza rima of Dante ; that of Tennyson in blank verse . It was an unprecedented thing in those days for the prize to be awarded to a poem in blank verse , but the true poetic expression ...
... printed in his " Remains , " was written in the terza rima of Dante ; that of Tennyson in blank verse . It was an unprecedented thing in those days for the prize to be awarded to a poem in blank verse , but the true poetic expression ...
Page 77
... Lover's Tale , " privately printed and speedily suppressed , and a couple of lyrics in miscellaneous collections , nothing of his was issued from the press between the 1833 " Poems , " LORD TENNYSON . 77 CHAPTER IV. ...
... Lover's Tale , " privately printed and speedily suppressed , and a couple of lyrics in miscellaneous collections , nothing of his was issued from the press between the 1833 " Poems , " LORD TENNYSON . 77 CHAPTER IV. ...
Page 78
... printed . ' Feeling , " says Lord Tennyson , in the preface to the 1879 edition , " the imperfection of the poem , I withdrew it from the press . One of my friends , however , who , boylike , admired the boy's work , distributed among ...
... printed . ' Feeling , " says Lord Tennyson , in the preface to the 1879 edition , " the imperfection of the poem , I withdrew it from the press . One of my friends , however , who , boylike , admired the boy's work , distributed among ...
Page 118
... would not thank you to call him back into this nether world . " The following story , of which several garbled versions have been printed , is told about Alfred Tennyson's love of tobacco . Lord John Russell gave a 118 LORD TENNYSON .
... would not thank you to call him back into this nether world . " The following story , of which several garbled versions have been printed , is told about Alfred Tennyson's love of tobacco . Lord John Russell gave a 118 LORD TENNYSON .
Page 170
... printed work ; but , in the retirement of Farringford , he was elaborating the great poems which , in the opinion * When Tennyson , with his bronzed face and dark curling locks , first went to the South of France , in com- pany with ...
... printed work ; but , in the retirement of Farringford , he was elaborating the great poems which , in the opinion * When Tennyson , with his bronzed face and dark curling locks , first went to the South of France , in com- pany with ...
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