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Tennyson as a Psychologist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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That Tennyson touched the finest chords in our nature none will dispute. But there are poets who have done this without being what the lamented Laureate* unquestionably was—a psychologist. “In Memoriam” is full of psychology as well as feeling. He went deep down into the springs of human thought and action. “Lucretius” is psychological if any poem in the language is.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1893

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Died at Aldworth House, Surrey, Oct. 6, 1892; buried in Westminster Abbey, Oct. 12th.

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