Alfred Lord Tennyson

is a dirty man with opium-glazed eyes and rat-taily hair.

A dirty man with opium-glazed eyes and rat-taily hair.

is the noblest poet that ever lived; not because the impressions he produces are, at all times, the most profound; not because the poetical excitement which he induces is, at all times the most intense; but because it is, at all times, the most ethereal, in other words, the most elevating and the most pure.

Tennyson I regard as the noblest poet that ever lived. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets - not because the impressions he produces are, at all times, the most profound; not because the poetical excitement which he induces is, at all times the most intense; but because it is, at all times, the most ethereal, in other words, the most elevating and the most pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, n.All

Alfred Lord Tennyson