The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Very Pretty Quarrel as It Stands

"A Very Pretty Quarrel as It Stands." Saturday Press. (1858-10-23).
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Reprints two of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems--“New Timon and the Poets” and “A Character”--and identifies them as deliberate attacks on Bulwer (presumably the notoriously bad writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton). Also reprints Bulwer’s “offending extract” that harshly criticized Tennyson’s poetry.