CR Episode 256: Tennyson’s Tithonus
Critical Readings · Critical Readings
January 27, 202550m 5s
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Show Notes
The panel reads Tennyson's "Tithonus," a dramatic monologue written in 1833, and considers both what the poem suggests about the importance of mortality to the human condition, and its significance in the context of the death of Arthur Hallam.