A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears"
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Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1847
Introduction
Tears, Idle Tears
was published in 1847, in a volume of poetry titled The Princess. After years of struggling with poverty, Alfred, Lord Tennyson was awarded a government pension in 1845, which allowed him to apply himself to longer works. The Princess was intended to be a long examination of a contemporary controversy, the education of women and the establishment of female colleges. The focus of The Princess shifted, though, while Tennyson was writing it, and it ended up giving more consideration to the roles of men and women in society, which the poet considered to be moving unnaturally toward each other. The Princess achieved popularity—when the first edition sold out, new editions appeared, year after year, for decades following—but critics considered it a failure of Tennyson’s imagination, a sign of his inability to maintain a subject throughout an extended work. The same critics, though, did praise specific poems that had appeared as part of the larger work, in particular "Tears, Idle