
Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Oxford University Press
Published on 8. October 2009
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-0-19-955713-4 (ISBN)
Description
Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors. Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century.
Reviews / Votes
This splendid piece of book production is a fitting memorial to an outstanding show. * R.A.Carroll, Society of Lincolnshire History and Archaelogy * a timely reconsideration of [Tennyson's] achievement ... substantial and perceptive essays * Nicholas Shirmpton, Times Literary Supplement * This is a wonderful, stimulating, courageous, and not infrequently brilliant book on Tennyson, poetry, and poets * Tennyson Research Bulletin *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 halftones, 2 cartoons
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
842 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-955713-4 (9780199557134)
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Persons
Editor
Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford
Fellow and Tutor in English, Balliol College, Oxford
Content
Acknowledgments ; Notes on Contributors ; A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations ; Prefatory Note ; 1. Tennyson's Dying Fall ; 2. Tennyson's Retrospective View ; 3. Tennyson's Limitations ; 4. Tennyson's Grotesque ; 5. Tennyson, Browning, Virgil ; 6. Tennyson and the Voices of Ovid's Heroines ; 7. On lines and grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson ; 8. Epic Sensibilities: 'Old Man' Milton and the Making of Tennyson's Idylls of the King ; 9. The Wheels of Being: Tennyson and Shelley ; 10. 'Brother-poets': Tennyson and Browning ; 11. Friendship, Poetry, and Insurrection: The Kemble Letters ; 12. Tennyson's Humour ; 13. Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense ; 14. 'Men, my borther, men the workers': Tennyson and the Victorian Working-CLass Poet ; 15. 'Frater, ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne ; 16. After Tennyson: the Presence of the Poet, 1892-1918 ; 17. Tennyson, by Ear ; 18. Hardy's Tennyson ; 19. T. S. Eliot and Tennyson ; 20. Tennyson and Auden ; 21. Betjemen's Tennyson ; Index