| Show Tenny sons dislike of anecdotes it is a curious bit of the irony of fate that there thera should now be rife so many tales and anecdotes of tennyson no man ever disliked such ench things more than he seldom could he be induced 10 lo read or to listen to personal incidents of 0 other great men it was not that he felt no interest in them but the delicacy of his nature was supersensitive and he shrank from looking into the private lives of others just as he had a horror of others looking into his own life yet half of the literature about the laureate consists of anecdotes and of these a large proportion relates to that very dislike of publicity new york tribune |
