Asked who was the greatest French poet of the 19th century, André Gide cruelly replied, “Victor Hugo, alas!” We might be tempted to say something similar of English poetry: “Tennyson, alas!” Whitman ...

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How fortunate was Ulysses to be merely a warrior and not a quarterback, nor Tennyson a sports reporter reminding him that the smart play would be to rest on his laurels. We need to be upfront with you ...

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I was in high school when I first read Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses,” which chronicles the title character’s reflection on his years of travel, as recorded in Homer’s “Odyssey.” Though ...

"You got me," Colbert said at the end of her reading of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses." By Katie Kilkenny Stephen Colbert couldn’t quell the waterworks when Dame Helen Mirren read him poetry by ...

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