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...Tennyson wrote that in spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love....
...Near the end of his life, in the haunting poem “The Man and the Echo” (1938), the poet W B Yeats reflected remorsefully on his sins of commission and omission....
...She also discovered Tennyson. “Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. I have discovered some rather beautiful bits by Tennyson....
...What Mr Motion calls “hardcore” public poems, such as the “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington” that Tennyson wrote as laureate, are no longer possible to write....
...Whether a “Collected Poems” could be called a poison is debatable, but the collected Tennyson or even Seamus Heaney could certainly give you tennis elbow....
...Yet his first novel, Williwaw (1946), was published only 60 years after “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After”, by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1886) – and is thus equidistant from Tennyson and the bestsellers of today...
...It’s a wonderful poem, with its echoes of Tennyson’s In Memoriam, another urban elegy for lost love....
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