“I do not accuse Buchanan of this, but, whether he himself is aware of…” — Charles Tennyson Turner

“I do not accuse Buchanan of this, but, whether he himself is aware of it or not, it (his very sweet little poem) is somewhat too suggestive.”

Qualifying a literary criticism with care rather than condemning the poet outright · Letter to D. R. Williamson, 5 August 1872

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Charles Tennyson Turner

About Charles Tennyson Turner

4 July 1808–25 April 1879

Charles Tennyson Turner was born Charles Turner on 4 July 1808 at Somersby Rectory in Lincolnshire, and died on 25 April 1879 at Grasby, also in Lincolnshire. He lived during the long Victorian transformation of English literary culture, yet his own life retained a strongly local character: he was a country clergyman…

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