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With the publication of the 1859 Idylls, Tennyson’s position as a ‘popular’ poet was fully established. After a first printing of 40 000 copies at 7s. each, a reprint was in preparation within six months. Royalties were soon bringing in £2000 a year from the Idylls alone, and Tennyson could begin to relax. The reviews were generally excellent. In the National Review, however, Walter Bagehot made the penetrating comment that Tennyson’s days as the voice and inspiration of radical youth were over.
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Ormond, L. (1993). The 1860s. In: Alfred Tennyson. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22998-7_8
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