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As an aside, you seem to be suggesting Wordsworth << Tennyson. Perhaps you can make a case for that, but I don't agree myself. Just an aside.
by ojbyrne 18y ago
As an aside, you seem to be suggesting Wordsworth << Tennyson. Perhaps you can make a case for that, but I don't agree myself. Just an aside.
- glymor 18y agoI was using Wordsworth as a proxy for Romantic poetry, which I consider to be (as a whole) overly-flowerly and trite. The article stuck me the same way. I don't rank Tennyson much as a poet. The inequality would hold on their performance as Poet Laureate though.
- ojbyrne 18y agoAnd I've always thought of the Victorians as overly mannered and reactionary. But I respect our differences of opinion.