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Alfred Tennyson to Roden Noel (February 1885): 'Your article in the Contemporary has been sent to me ***. My eyes are very bad. One is entirely gone for all reading purposes, and the other -- I hope it will not fail me utterly before I die; -- but I have looked into your book, and find it full of true poetry -- not concentration enough, perhaps.'