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Relation to the Biographical Tennyson In the last decades, authorial intention has grown just as problematic as character: "capitalist ideology ... has attached the greatest importance to the 'person' of the author.... ," etc. Such a Tennyson is well represented by his own statements and by numerous biographies. As we move from Hallam's Memoir to Nicolson, to Charles Tennyson, to Buckley, to Ricks, to Martin, we encounter Tennyson presented with greater evidence and deepening psychological insight.
If the evidence of intention is as strong for Tennyson as for any poet, the complexity of its operation is implicit in the claims of Nicolson, Paden, and E. D. H. Johnson that Tennyson's inspiration often lay beneath his conscious control, that his compositional process is at least as significant as his stated purpose, that he often wrote betteror at least differentlythan he knew how. While I would agree that we are now better judges of Tennyson's best work than was either Tennyson or his age, I would not agree that we need to jettison those portions of it which were written late, or confront contemporary social issues, or are lacking in dreams and visions, or revel in high seriousness.
Lyric poets may not be supposed to think of their characters as "real" people, but Hallam Tennyson described his father as "lov[ing] his own great imaginative knight, the Lancelot of the Idylls" (Poems, III, 462n). Parodying Blake's description of Milton, Steven C. Dillon concludes, "Tennyson is yet ... ''38 Lancelot lived for him, as he does for us, less through those qualities Tennyson admired than through those he feared. Throughout his poetry we encounter a stubborn integrity in characters we are obviously meant to reject and a troubling duplicity in characters we are obviously supposed to admire.