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Preface: from strange diagonal to weaver's shuttle; Part I. VictorianWarp: Perception: 1. Tennyson's stupidity - and ours; 2. Dream houses of'etherisity': Poe and Tennyson; 3. The aesthetic of particularity and theaesthetic of vagueness: the owl and the eagle; 4. The sharp and the blurred:Julia Margaret Cameron and Tennyson; 5. The mirror and the echo en abyme inVictorian poetry interweave - my lady('s) shuttle: the alienation of workinto text; Part II. Victorian Woof: Representative Men and Mystified Women:6. Homeric competition: mythic reflections of representative men; 7. Fromsensuous idea to mythic woman: knowledge, wisdom, and Pallas Athene; 8.Tennyson choosing: the three women; 9. Choosing Tennyson: the stranger'shovering sword; 10. Last words: Tennyson's Cymbeline; Bibliography.