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“What is wanting in Tennyson”? I fear you must have thought me very flippant, my dear Miss Barrett, when I hazard but an opinion that something was wanting in him—& yet though I quite agree with you in your estimate of him—though I feel that he has all the capabilities of a great poet—I am still of the same mind, & cannot get rid of that sense of deficiency– You yourself say—“I never can feel more intensely than now, the sublime
26 September [1843]. Westwood, Thomas to Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
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1843-09-26
Author
Westwood, Thomas
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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“What is wanting in Tennyson”? I fear you must have thought me very flippant, my dear Miss Barrett, when I hazard but an opinion that something was wanting in him—& yet though I quite agree with you in your estimate of him—though I feel that he has all the capabilities of a great poet—I am still of the same mind, & cannot get rid of that sense of deficiency– You yourself say—“I never can feel more intensely than now, the sublime