I guess a lot of literature experts/commentators/teachers/professors would say that there was a lot lacking in my schooling, but I don't understand what all the hoopla is about with Tennyson. I don't know how they can describe him as a genius. I did not enjoy his style or his flights of fancy about his subjects. The only piece I liked from this collection was his story about Enoch Arden. Mr. Jagger's commentary on "The Life of Tennyson" at the back of the book was interesting but also waltzed off into similar flights of fancy that I felt Tennyson does himself. Maybe that's why I became a steam engineer and not a teacher of poems. ( )