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Susan’s Bookshelves: The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes

Tennyson and I go back a long way. He was my O Level poet and I remember loving the sensuous musicality of Oenone, The Lady of Shalott, Ulysess and more. So I asked for, and was given, a complete works of Tennyson for my 21st birthday, which I still have. Actually, had I but known […]

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