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For I Was afraid of the Church [interlude]
For I Was afraid of the Church [interlude]

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Explanatory Notes For I Was afraid of the Church [interlude]
  illustration] Gneiting has identified a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph of Tennyson, used as the frontispiece for the 1874–1875 edition of the poet’s works and famous as the “Dirty Monk” portrait, as the basis for this illustration. Since he had already used Tennyson’s face for his pictures of Merlin, Beard altered his features here (“Picture and Text,” pp. 238, 241).