The Poet
96 Words
First printed in 1830.
In this poem we have the first grand note struck by Tennyson, the first poem exhibiting the [Greek: spoudaiotaes] of the true poet.
[Footnote 1: The expression, as is not uncommon with Tennyson, is extremely ambiguous; it may mean that he hated hatred, scorned scorn, and loved love, or that he had hatred, scorn and love as it were in quintessence, like Dante, and that is no doubt the meaning.]
[Footnotes 2: 1830. Through.]
[Footnote 3: 1830 till 1851. Though.]
[Footnote 4: 2 1830. A.]
[Footnote 5: 1830.
[Footnote 6: 1830. Hurled.]
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