{"id":88,"date":"2014-01-02T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:16:18","slug":"to-strive-to-seek-to-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"To Strive, To Seek, To Bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dirda at the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/1g3JGVN\">reviews<\/a> John Batchelor of Tennyson and finds a few good bits about the poet&#8217;s life, especially how he would subject party guests to lengthy recitations of his own work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tennyson.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tennyson-200x300.jpg?resize=213%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Both shy and incredibly self-centered, he would alternately thrill and bore the other guests at dinner parties by reading aloud his latest long poem. Once he did this with his friend the classicist Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, who listened gravely and then said, \u201cI think I wouldn\u2019t publish that, if I were you, Tennyson.\u201d As Batchelor writes, after a moment of frigid silence, Tennyson answered, \u201cIf it comes to that, Master, the sherry you gave us at luncheon was beastly.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/1g3JGVN\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Dirda at the Washington Post reviews John Batchelor of Tennyson and finds a few good bits about the poet&#8217;s life, especially how \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=88\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tennyson-296x440.jpg?fit=296%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}