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TENNYSON. By Peter Levi. Macmillan; 349 pages; Pounds20. To be published in America by Scribner's in January 1994

FOR 40 years one of Tennyson's best friends was the great Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol. Once, and probably only once, Jowett suggested to him that a certain poem should not be printed. Tennyson did not argue. "Come to that, Master," he replied, "the sherry you gave us at lunch was filthy." When the poet died, Jowett listed his qualities, including among them "absolute truthfulness, absolutely himself . . . great common sense and a strong will . . . the high-bred manners not only of a gentleman but of a great man." He added: "He would have wished that, like ...

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