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The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Electronic edition. book cover

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Electronic edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-394-4
Language: English
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Detail: Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson. By James Mudd. Albumen print, 1861. Hulton-Deutsch Collection. By permission, CORBIS
Gladstone was at C. with me. I had met him before, but had never seen him so nearly. Very pleasant, and very interesting he was, even when he discoursed on Homer, where most people think him a little hobby-horsical: let him be. His hobby-horse is of the intellect and with a grace.

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Letter to the Duke of Argyll, May 28, 1862

Tennyson, Alfred. The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; Oxford: Clarendon Press; and New York: Oxford University Press, 1981-1990.

The editors . . . have annotated the letters with marvellous fullness and precision and—what seems even more remarkable—with zest and wit. Through their exhaustive work we get, incidentally, a feeling for the texture of Victorian life.

—Richard Jenkyns
Times Literary Supplement


This edition is a triumph of imaginative scholarship, worthy to stand beside the Pilgrim "Dickens" or Purdy and Millgate's "Hardy."

—Richard Holmes
The Times

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