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 ...

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"You got me," Colbert said at the end of her reading of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses." By Katie Kilkenny Stephen Colbert couldn’t quell the waterworks when Dame Helen Mirren read him poetry by ...