The Manyfacèd GlassThe hazy settings and amorphous auditors of Tennysons dramatic monologues are often contrastedat Tennysons expensewith Brownings more vivid, concrete realizations. Hughes argues that Tennysons achievements in the genre are, in fact, considerable, that his influence can be traced in such major figures as T. S. Eliot, and that the monologue occupies a far more central position in Tennysons poetic achievement than has hitherto been acknowledged. Hughes