Tennyson

Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Lord Tennyson were born in the same year and so share this year as their bicentennial. That being the case (and with apologies to visitors for not posting here lately), I have made some slight effort to acknowledge the accomplishments of the latter in a blog not dissimilar to this one. You can find it here: http://tennyson200.blogspot.com/

I should point out that Tennyson and Poe, although they never met, were among the uncommon cases of great writers and contemporaries who respected one another's work. And someone who wanted to understand something of the sensibility and technique of Poe's verse could do far worse than study the works of his English counterpart.