Word: marianna
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Keats we have as good a painting of nature as there is. It was when the new poetical style of Cowley and Burns had done its work through Keats that Tennyson came into prominence. Among his early poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady of Shalott as its first poem. These two volumes mark the lyrical period of his life. After 1833 came the idyllic period. He was an ideal descriptive writer, and from now on his touches of nature were especially delicate...