localisers

Updated: June 28, 2025

But it was the world of the poet, not of the "medium." The Tennysons stayed on at the parsonage for six years. But, anticipating their removal, Arthur Hallam in 1831 dealt in prophecy about the identification in the district of places in his friend's poems "critic after critic will trace the wanderings of the brook," as, in fact, critic after critic has done. Tennyson disliked these "localisers."

Andrew Lang - Alfred Tennyson