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...replies (sample: "Is it true that you'll eat anything, coach?" "I'll eat anything that don't eat me first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers and statesmen rather than barefoot mountain boys...
...Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
...marriage? The answer lies in the character of Jane Carlyle. Unlike the wives of many geniuses, Jane was neither a gay deceiver nor a suet pudding; she was a formidable intellectual, born to shine in literary and philosophical discussion. Every great man in London, from Charles Dickens to Alfred Tennyson, sat around the teacups with her; a favored few listened sympathetically to her tales of woe and discontent...
Shannon is author of a book on Tennyson which will be published in the fall, by the University Press. Shannon, also an instructor since 1950, is currently at work on a study of Tennyson's literary reputation...
...books cover a variety of subjects, from biographies of Tennyson to sets of historical studies to information pamphlets from the U.S. State Department...