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The five long English elegies before "In Memoriam" all contain a dramatized element which dissociates the poet from the strongest expressions of grief, and permits some arguing away of grief. Tennyson ...

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And grow incorporate into thee. –Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. I’m standing in vacuum atop a dead ravine, idly counting the delicate protrusions of ice that run along the opposite slope. This ...

Like most writers’ handwritten drafts, the papers of Alfred Tennyson—the 19th-century English poet known for nuggets such as, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”—are ...

Poet Alfred Tennyson gave English literature some of its most enduring verses—many of them fueling the Pre-Raphaelite imagination. Among them: the sentiment that it’s better to have known and lost ...

When Alfred, Lord Tennyson first saw the photograph that his friend Julia Margaret Cameron took of him in May 1865, he joked that he looked like a “dirty monk.” After the portrait was exhibited, a ...

A digitization of a draft from the Wren Library (above) and a multispectral image processed by Michael Sullivan from raw imaging by Andrew Beeby (below) Master and Fellows of Trinity College, ...