... man of letters, Tennyson held aloof from his age and continued to live most intensely within the world of his own mind," (Johnson). One of the underlying factors in Tennyson's poetry are dreams and the detachment of reality. In the "Lover's Tale", the poet speaks of "delicious dreams, our other life" and another poem states "dreams are true while they last ... being in contrast to the activities of the mind. His poems show knowledge of dream psychology unique in the period, and such as could only have been acquired through auto analysis. What is especially frequent are the notations rel...

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