I have a soft spot for Tennyson, I can't help it, though a lot of the time
he is pure camp and there's those dialect poems which ought to have been
left to quietly rot in a drawer (I just tried to read Maud: A Monologue,
whew, it's pure melodrama, and yet some of its lines strikes resonances even
now) - but there's In Memoriam AHH, after all -
Best
A
On 5/1/05 10:25 AM, "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Horror of the Victorians? Do you mean in their social aspect, or are you
> talking about their poetry? I was reading Tennyson this afternoon, vis-a-vis
> this thread, and found myself thinking that the use of language was very
> much more full of variety and richness in sound and rhythm than I'd
> remembered. In fact, I decided to go back and re-read some of it. I don't
> always like the things he says, but I do like the way he says them.
>
> I don't know about that making me 'very peculiar' -- I'll let you know next
> week!
Alison Croggon
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