Arwin van Arum wrote: > ...French poets invented modernism (with a slight bit of help from > Poe, admittedly) Raphael Ingelbien wrote: > And some help from arch-Victorian Tennyson, too... Tricky, all that. Marcia Karp wrote: > Would you say more, please, about Tennyson. Raphael Ingelbien wrote: > Verlaine and Mallarme were keen readers of Tennyson's poetry. > Mallarme regarded 'Maud' as a masterpiece. I don't know much about this stuff, educate me please. They may have liked Tennyson but how did Tennyson affect their poetry? Regards, Rick Parker