Tennysonian
[ ten-uh-soh-nee-uhn ]
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of Tennyson or his writings.
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How to use Tennysonian in a sentence
In the way the girl wailed forth some of her Tennysonian lines he detected a faint gleam as of something pearly in deep water.
The Tragic Muse | Henry JamesPunch had always been a Tennysonian, even in the days when the Laureate was still looked upon as an innovator.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. | Charles L. GravesThey are those of a Tennysonian, and, no doubt, would be other than they are if the writer were younger than he is.
Alfred Tennyson | Andrew LangHere is Tennysonian verse five hundred years before Tennyson.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory | George SaintsburyIt was all as sweet, harmonious, and artistically perfect as a Tennysonian stanza.
Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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