SOURCE: "'Descend, and Touch, and Enter': Tennyson's Strange Manner of Address," in Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850-1920, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 44-70.
In the following chapter from his book, Craft studies Tennyson's In Memoriam as a document of homosexual desire, looking at the poem in relation to its social context and contemporary notions of sexuality.
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