Although modern readers may read Tennyson’s excessive professions of love for Hallam as homosexual, the nature of their relationship was unclear to Tennyson himself, and its expressions in keeping with Victorian sentimentality. He would have baulked at our collapsing of an entire world of feelings so complex.
Author Archives: Darius Sepehri
Darius Sepehri is a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature, Religion and History of Philosophy, University of Sydney