Tennyson’s Ulysses as Shakespeare’s Hamlet? (Edited)
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
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