Reviews round-up
The Boundless Deep
by Richard Holmes
3 of 3 critics positive
7 reviews: 3 positives; 4 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“blowing away the cobwebs around Tennyson”
The Boundless Deep — blowing away the cobwebs around Tennyson
“A masterful account of the poet’s early life”
The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review – wild times with young Tennyson
“shakes off the poet’s fusty image to reveal a young man grappling with the doubts of his age”
The making of Tennyson’s radical mind
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
A Tragedy, and the Poetic Masterpiece It Inspired
In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
Britain’s greatest Victorian poet was once a chain-smoking teenage vandal
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