Mystical Vision in In Memoriam

James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California

Note 18 to Chapter 5 of the author's Tennyson's Major Poems, which Yale University Press published in 1975. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

For an extended and convincing treatment of this section and of the importance of the mystical vision in In Memoriam, see Stephen Allen Grant; also Carlisle Moore.

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