FOETS AND THE STARS
Lord Tennyson never made mistakes in astronomy like the error of Coleridge, who placed a star witmn the crescent of the new moon. That is impossible. Although we. cannot see the rest of the moon, it is all there, and >t shuts out the view of any stars that may be behind. Tennyson kept himself right by making a point of always consulting the Astronomer Royal when he was proposing to write anything describing the skies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 11
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80FOETS AND THE STARS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 11
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