The Promise of May

work by Tennyson

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In Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Major literary work of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
…1884), and the “village tragedy” The Promise of May, which proved a failure at the Globe in November 1882. This play—his only prose work—shows Tennyson’s growing despondency and resentment at the religious, moral, and political tendencies of the age. He had already caused some sensation by publishing a poem called…
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