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Literature

A Short Analysis of Tennyson’s ‘Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Princess, a long narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson published in 1847, is not much read or studied now. In the vast editions of Tennyson’s collected works, it languishes unread alongside his plays about Thomas Becket and his various ‘sequel’ poems (‘Mariana in […]