 In an early review in the 1831 Westminster Review , J. Fox praises the depiction of women within the whole of Poems , <unk> Lyrics and says that Tennyson 's " portraits are delicate , his likenesses [ ... ] perfect , and they have life , character , and individuality . They are nicely <unk> also to all the different <unk> of emotion and passion which are expressed in common with the descriptions of them . There is an appropriate object for every shade of feeling , from the light touch of passing admiration to the triumphant madness of soul and sense , or the deep and <unk> <unk> of <unk> . " A review by a " Professor <unk> " in 1878 argues , " As descriptive poetry , and for that feature of realistic description so characteristic of Tennyson 's <unk> , ' Mariana ' has , perhaps , not been surpassed even by him . " 
