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Excerpt from Tennyson and the Isle of Wight
In the November following his marriage Alfred Tennyson, owing chie?y to Prince Albert's admiration for In Memoriam was appointed Poet Laureate, in suc cession to William Wordsworth. Tenny son's remarks on his acceptance of the o?ice are characteristic I have no passion for Courts, but a great love of privacy. It is, I believe, scarce [100 a year and my friend R. M. Milnes tells me that the price of the patent and court dress will swallow up all the first year's income. If he had written only the great Ode on the Duke of Wellington and the stirringly patriotic Charge of the Light Brigade, his appointment as Laureate were amply justified; but per haps the less poetic but more practical lines Ri?emen Form which did so much to iuaugurate our Volunteer Move ment was the more solid patriotic achieve ment.
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