Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.
Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.