tangentially AtD

[Mark Kohut]

"The West was suddenly a subject in 1891. The *Century *brought out notes
on primitive California
and a tale of Hamlin Garland. Julian Ralph's careful reports of Western
States and cities appeared
in *Harper's. *Frederick Remington's sketches and the first of Owen
Wister's stories found attention.
The wave of interest lasted through 1892 with a froth of politics as the
young People's Party began to boil.
.....Prayers were offered in many American cities as Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
was dying...while Thomas Wentworth Higginson
[see Dickinson] was trying to get Tennyson's *Ulysses *taught in Boston
schools....[all Tennyson's worst poems were popular]..
[and the West did not care at all about Tennyson]----from The Mauve Decade