Tennyson’s ‘the Defence of Lucknow’ - a Minor Poetical Analysis

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:23:34 +0000

If there were ever a shufti for verses that could inveigh conflictive colonial fracas like fulminate from fired fusillade and words that could bespeak the horror of a mutiny, like what ensued in the India of 1857, one need not venture beyond Tennyson’s ‘the Defence of Lucknow’.