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, October 23, 1858, 2.
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.