SOURCE: Friedman, Norman. “Hallam on Tennyson: An Early Aesthetic Doctrine and Modernism.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 8, no. 2 (fall 1975): 37-62.
In the following essay, Friedman examines “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson.” He claims the essay demonstrates Hallam as an original and almost prescient critic, noting connections between Hallam's essay and modernism.
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