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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In this same year he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where in 1829 he became friends with Arthur Henry Hallam, a sophisticated, charming and generally admired young man who, after his death in 1833 at the age of 22, would remain in the memory of all who knew him as a person of exceptional promise. |
 | | Arthur Hallam encouraged Tennyson to write and publish poetry, claiming, in a notorious review of Tennyson's second volume, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) in the Englishman's Magazine, that Tennyson's poetry represented a new development, the poetry of 'sensation'. |
 | | Hallam was right, however, in recognising the originality in the “vivid, picturesque delineation of objects” in poems like 'Mariana' and 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights', and the peculiar skill with which they are “fused…in a medium of strong emotion”. |
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