Note 6 to the Introduction 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.
These phrases belong, in order, to the following: Robert Langbaum, p. 89; Brashear, p. 67; Carr, p. 381; and W. H. Aude, p. x.
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