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Tennyson Seems To Have been spurred into a creative burst by the death of his father, as he was to be by the death of Hallam. Later in 1831 he was moved to both gratitude and thought by Arthur Hallam’s essay “On Some of the Characteristics of Mod ern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson.” A powerful and subtle critique of Romantic poetry, it was to be praised by W. B. Yeats as
criticism which is of the best and rarest sort. If one set aside Shelley’s essay on poetry and Browning’s essay on Shelley, cne does not know where to turn in modern English criticism for anything so philosophic —anything so fundamental and radical—as the first half of Arthur Hallam’s [essay].
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Ricks, C. (1972). Poems 1832. In: Tennyson. Masters of World Literature Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01482-8_4
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