Book Review: Deborah Lutz, Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
<p>When Merlin falls prey to Vivien’s enchanting songs in Idylls of the King, infatuation leads to entrapment, and the power of song within the poem darkens. It is at this point in Merlin and Vivien that Tennyson likens rhyme to relics:</p> <br/> <p>this rhyme</p> <...
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Tennyson Society
2016
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