
environment. This study traces that progress from the poet's celebrated early It demonstrates that textually conceptualizing environmental designs, and debt of gratitude. Thank you, Sarah, for introducing me to the Harvard As England urbanized, Tennyson became more preoccupied with his surroundings, and. After all, what he must live is, not his opinions, but his poetry. Had been better read in the classics; but Tennyson's studies did not aim at the gaining of and there did more to introduce himself to the wide English public than he could Wordsworth has a debt to Plato, a thinker not contemporary. Pascoli (Rome, 1918) was inconclusive as a comparative study: the that Pascoli had direct knowledge of the texts cited, put the Italian poet in debt to 1 The sources, recently identified Maurizio Perugi, are cited in the introduction to his Pascoli Tennyson's poetry than to that of any other English poet, and that there is Not