>most quoted individual after Shakespeare, in the Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsHow? His poems suck.
>>24921191>Tennyson is a great poet, for reasons that are perfectly clear. He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety, and complete competence.>Without making the mistake of trying to write Latin verse in English, he knew everything about Latin versification that an English poet could use; and he said of himself that he thought he knew the quantity of the sounds of every English word except perhaps scissors.
>>24921191Joyce's quip about "Lawn Tennyson" was on point. Although it was mainly directed at his admirers.
>>24921337kek'd and based
>>24921191Idylls of the King is very good.
>>24921394nah, it sucks
>>24921191I wouldn't know, I've never read him. Have encountered no shilling of him to entice me to.
>>24921191it should be Wordsworth
