Crossposted from the Tennyson Bicentennial blog.
An excerpt--
Tennyson: There is one spot in your country which I should like to visit--a spot, which as your poet, Fitz-Greene Halleck, finely expressed it, is hallowed ground, a pilgrim shrine, a mecca of the mind.
Interviewer: You mean Mount Vernon, where Washington is entombed?
Tennyson: No; I mean a long-neglected spot in the provincial town of Baltimore, where the greatest American genius lies buried. I mean the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.
--from "A Visit To Tennyson", The New York Times, February 13, 1886
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