Tennyson has many styles, and his ornateness or deliberate contrivance as craftsman springs largely from an essentially modern sense of the elusiveness of wordsfrom his search, foreshadowing that of Yeats and Eliot, for the symbol that would radiate multiple connotations, the many-textured "thought within the image."
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But the abiding strength of both Wordsworth and Tennyson transcends any unintended anticipationverbal or technicalof a later age of literature. It inheres, as
The Prelude
and
In Memoriam
demonstrated in 1850, in the timeless quality of their distinctly individual voices and the intensity and amplitude of their personal vision.
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