Author: Francis Turner PalgravePublisher: London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Francis Turner Palgrave
Author: Francis Turner PalgravePublisher: London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1851-1870
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674525849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The first volume of The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson showed the young manbecoming a poet and recorded the experiences--out of which so much of his poetrywas forged--that culminated in three personal triumphs: marriage, In Memoriam,and the Poet Laureateship. Volume IIreveals the gradual emergence of a new anddifferent Tennyson, moving confidentlyamong the great and famous--the intellectual, political, and artistic elite--yetremaining very much a son of Lincolnshire,whose childlike simplicity of manner strikesall who meet him. As a young man, he wasobliged to be paterfamilias of his father'sfamily; now he has a family of his own,with two sons reaching manhood, twohouses, and two lives, one in London andthe other at home. Through the letters we learn somethingabout his poetry (including "Maud," andThe Idylls of the King), much abouthis dealings with publishers, and evenmore about his travels--in Scotland,Wales, Cornwall, Norway, Switzerland,Auvergne, Brittany, the Pyrenees--and itis clear that all that he met became part ofhim and of his poetry. By the close of thisvolume he is one of the two or three mostfamous names in the English-speakingliterary world. The edition includes an abundance of letters to and about Tennyson as well as byhim, and its generous annotation has beencommended by reviewers for its range andwit.
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1821-1850
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674525832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Many years in preparation, this first volume of Lang and Shannon's edition of Tennyson's correspondence lives up to all expectations. In a comprehensive introduction the editors present not only the biographical background, with vivid portrayals of the dramatis personae, but also the story of the manuscripts, the ones that were destroyed and the many that luckily survived. The Tennyson who emerges in this volume is not a serene or Olympian figure. He is moody, impulsive, often reckless, now full of camaraderie, now plagued by anxiety or resentment, deeply attached to close friends and family and uninterested in the social scene. His early life is unenviable: we see glimpses of the embittered, drunken father, the distraught mother, the swarm of siblings in the rectory at Somersby in Lincolnshire. The happiest period is the three years at Cambridge, terminated when his father dies, and the two years thereafter, with Arthur Hallam engaged to his sister and a frequent visitor at their house. The shock of Hallam's death in 1833, coupled with the savage attack on Tennyson's poems in the Quarterly Review, is followed by depression, bouts of alcoholism, financial problems, and gradually, in the 1840s, increasing recognition of his work. The year 1850 sees the publication of In Memoriam, his long-deferred marriage at age forty to Emily Seliwood, and his acceptance, not without misgivings, of the post of Poet Laureate. The editors have garnered and selected a large number of letters to and about Tennyson which supplement his own letters, fill in lacunae in the narrative, and reveal him to us as his friends and contemporaries saw him.
Literature
Author: MLN.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1871-1892
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Life and Times of Tennyson, from 1809 to 1850, by Thomas R. Lounsbury
Author: Thomas R. LounsburyPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
British Music and Literary Context
Author: Michael AllisPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain--particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. British Music and Literary Context counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how a literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth-century British music, literature and Victorian studies will enjoy this thought-provoking and perceptive book.
Tennyson Transformed
Author: Julia ThomasPublisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Tennyson Transformed explores how the life and work of the great Victorian Poet Laureate was interpreted by artists, illustrators, photographers and other creative practitioners. This book evaluates several strands of Tennyson's influence on Victorian visual culture, and sheds new light on this crucial aspect of his influence.
The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Francis O'GormanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351880616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, this volume re-examines these relationships, exposing some of the significant and complex ways in which key aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read, and transacted with during the post-Romantic nineteenth century. The contributors challenge long-held assumptions about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth. This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with a Preface by David Fairer, offers a sharply new assessment of the energizing place of eighteenth-century literature and culture in the nineteenth century. While obviously of great interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, the collection will also appeal to readers broadly concerned questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.