Alfred Tennyson

…Julia Margaret Cameron did this image in 1875 in its response to a long poem by Tennyson called The Princess.…

…The poet Alfred Tennyson spent decades pouring out long, lavish verses about the king and his knights, a sprawling cycle of poems that the public devoured with the kind of enthusiasm later generations would reserve for serial television.…

…And then, you know, you read something like Tennyson's poem about Odysseus and you go, oh, no, Odysseus is a cursed, tragic figure who wants desperately to come home, but can't actually be home.…