[NEW COURSE] Once the most-read poet in English, Tennyson’s poems are not just Victorian artifacts. We’ll read several poems that are surprisingly modern—dealing with what a young idealist can do in a rapidly-changing, industrializing capitalist world, the seductions of that new world, difficult choices in a democracy that may be producing as many problems as it solves, and the spiritual crises provoked by modern science. The problems of 200 years ago are at the root of today’s controversies— and often don’t look that different. Audio/Visual, Discussion, Lecture