These are so lovely! Oh, lookit, I was going to name my faves, and then the list just grew until it included most of them anyways . . . :P "Cosmic Love" is definitely the tops M/M song, and I will probably be snagging one or two (or three) of these in the near future.
Also, I followed your link to "Merlin and the Gleam." It's a beautiful poem. I don't know why I haven't read more Tennyson, but I'm more than comfortable blaming it on my very spotty high school literature education along with my reluctance to take poetry classes in college. :P
I don't blame you for your reluctance to take poetry classes, but Tennyson is defiintely worth a read if you like Arthurian stuff. It's narrative poetry, and often really beautiful.
Haha, I'm much more of a novel kind of girl. My only experience with a college-level poetry class was a joint Jane Austen/William Blake class (which I took for the 'intellectual discussions' on Persuasion, P&P, etc, obviously), and I absolutely loathed the days we read Blake.
However, I picked up a book of Tennyson poetry last Christmas and have been meaning to get around to it. Sometimes a good recommendation is just the thing to give a book a shove from my 'to be read' pile and into my hands. Narrative poetry sounds infinitely better than whatever the heck Blake wrote, and I really enjoyed The Green Knight, so as soon as I finish up some other books, I will give him a shot! :)
Lol, yeah . . . That teacher was a little out there. The point was to try to get us to see how 'revolutionary' Jane Austen really was, but it didn't quite work because it was obvious how enamored of Blake she was, but we never spent as much time on Austen. Like, an entire semester isn't enough time to spend on Austen. How did she even hope we could get it done in half a semester??
But my school seemed to have this thing against 'traditional' literature, so it was really tough to find many classes on Victorian (or thereabouts) literature, or basically the authors I loved. That was the closest I could get! Although I took a really fantastic 19th-century novel class my sophomore year. :D
Also, I followed your link to "Merlin and the Gleam." It's a beautiful poem. I don't know why I haven't read more Tennyson, but I'm more than comfortable blaming it on my very spotty high school literature education along with my reluctance to take poetry classes in college. :P
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I don't blame you for your reluctance to take poetry classes, but Tennyson is defiintely worth a read if you like Arthurian stuff. It's narrative poetry, and often really beautiful.
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However, I picked up a book of Tennyson poetry last Christmas and have been meaning to get around to it. Sometimes a good recommendation is just the thing to give a book a shove from my 'to be read' pile and into my hands. Narrative poetry sounds infinitely better than whatever the heck Blake wrote, and I really enjoyed The Green Knight, so as soon as I finish up some other books, I will give him a shot! :)
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But my school seemed to have this thing against 'traditional' literature, so it was really tough to find many classes on Victorian (or thereabouts) literature, or basically the authors I loved. That was the closest I could get! Although I took a really fantastic 19th-century novel class my sophomore year. :D
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