But does it live in the memory as one of the rare great Tennysonian lines?
To use the Tennysonian line, "Every door was barred with gold, and opened but to golden keys."
He is poeta more than vates, and he is least Tennysonian in a poem like "Maud."
Punch had always been a Tennysonian, even in the days when the Laureate was still looked upon as an innovator.
Here is Tennysonian verse five hundred years before Tennyson.
