"Like dull narcotics, numbing pain": speculations on Tennyson and Opium.
From: Victorian Poetry
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Date: 6/22/2002
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Author: Platizky, Roger S.
IN TENNYSON: THE UNQUIET HEART, BIOGRAPHER ROBERT BERNARD MARTIN describes how Tennyson was haunted "from the time of his honeymoon until the end of his life" by the accusation that he was an opium addict. (1) He took umbrage with charles Kingsley over what he thought was a caricature of himself in the novel Two Years Ago, a Spasmodic poet who dies of a drug overdose, and he was concerned about being guiltily linked with his brother charles, whose addiction to opium was severe enough ...
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