Tennysonian
Americanadjective
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Origin of Tennysonian
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Not as an epic drama in the Tennysonian manner, but like the medieval minstrel in fitful lyrics Masefield catches a climax here, a sad mood there.
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But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne.
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Burne-Jones also got a title, doing Tennysonian tapestries of never-never land subjects in colors that inspired the Gilbert and Sullivan phrase "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery."
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The Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S.
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Do for a Tennysonian poem—‘the Lay of the Liliaceous Lady.’
From The New Mistress A Tale by George Manville Fenn
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