Jamie, I do mention Tennyson in the endnotes:
4. Forrest-Thompson, in New British Poetries, p.119. The line, ‘I lie alone. I am aweary, aweary’ alludes to the lines in Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’: ‘She said, “I am aweary, aweary,/I would that I were dead!”’.
The references to Sydney and Fletcher are merely to illustrate the lines' similarity in register to lines by poets of their era. The reference has no polemical import.
Hi Jeff – if you’re talking about intertextuality, in the lines “I am aweary, aweary,/ I would that I were dead” the references you give from Sydney and Fletcher are quite remote. The lines are a direct quotation from Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ (which doesn’t necessarily make them any better).
Best,
Jamie
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