Author: Stopford Augustus BrookePublisher: New York : Putnam's
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Tennyson, His Art and Relation to Modern Life
Author: Stopford Augustus BrookePublisher: New York : Putnam's
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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The social Ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time
Author: William Clark GordonPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Social problems in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Aesthetic Nature of Tennyson
Author: Jean Pauline SmithPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Tennyson's The Coming of Arthur
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Alfred Tennyson
Author: Laurence W. MazzenoPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132628
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The poet's reputation has weathered even the most vitriolic attempts to discredit both the man and his writings; and as criticism of the late twentieth century demonstrates, Tennyson's claim to pre-eminence among the Victorians is now unchallenged."
Sense and Transcendence
Author: Ortwin de GraefPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789061866671
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Isabella Mitchell CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Tennyson's Rapture
Author: Cornelia D. J. PearsallPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190287810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In the wake of the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the subject of In Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson wrote a range of intricately connected poems, many of which feature pivotal scenes of rapture, or being carried away. This book explores Tennyson's representation of rapture as a radical mechanism of transformation-theological, social, political, or personal-and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. The poet's fascination with transformation is figured formally in the genre he is credited with inventing, the dramatic monologue. Tennyson's Rapture investigates the poet's previously unrecognized intimacy with the theological movements in early Victorian Britain that are the acknowledged roots of contemporary Pentacostalism, with its belief in the oncoming Rapture, and its formative relation to his poetic innovation. Tennyson's work recurs persistently as well to classical instances of rapture, of mortals being borne away by immortals. Pearsall develops original readings of Tennyson's major classical poems through concentrated attention to his profound intellectual investments in advances in philological scholarship and archeological exploration, including pressing Victorian debates over whether Homer's raptured Troy was a verifiable site, or the province of the poet's imagination. Tennyson's attraction to processes of personal and social change is bound to his significant but generally overlooked Whig ideological commitments, which are illuminated by Hallam's political and philosophical writings, and a half-century of interaction with William Gladstone. Pearsall shows the comprehensive engagement of seemingly apolitical monologues with the rise of democracy over the course of Tennyson's long career. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic monologues, this book argues against a critical tradition that sees speakers as unintentionally self-revealing and ignorant of the implications of their speech. Tennyson's Rapture probes the complex aims of these discursive performances, and shows how the ambitions of speakers for vital transformations in themselves and their circumstances are not only articulated in, but attained through, the medium of their monologues.
Theme and Symbol in Tennyson's Poems to 1850
Author: Clyde de L. RyalsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280620X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
One of Keats' finest sonnets begins: "Much have I traveled," yet Keats traveled very little, only to Italy where he died. Shelley, also an introspective and intellectual, dabbled in politics, often with a comic effect and although he could not swim, he was devoted to sailing. Wordsworth marched to France, praising the Revolution, which he later regretted. Coleridge wandered to Germany and German metaphysics. Later he created the Ancient Mariner which is the mythic centerpiece of the Romantic period. Each of these poets feels that the occupation of a poet demand a dedication to a life of action as well as inward discovery. Consequently, the image of "the journey," with its double reference to natural and psychic realities, is one of the unifying motifs of nineteenth-century poetry. Alfred Tennyson, the author claims, was one of the last poets able to make both voyages, but he could only do so with great effort and at great expense. By nature introspective , he found the life of the mind far more appealing than the life of action; yet he knew, like Milton and Keats before him, that great poetry demands the voyage without as well as the voyage within. His early poetry, then, is concerned with the pull of the two voyages, and thus it becomes, in Arnold's worlds, the dialogue of the mind with itself. There is for modern readers something intensely interesting about such a divided personality, for we see in Tennyson almost the same dilemma that faces contemporary artists. Often when we read his poems we feel that Tennyson is of our age. But then at times he seems as remote from us as Bishop Wilberforce and his anti-Darwin fulminations. What, then, is there about Tennyson that makes him appear so modern and yet so dated? The answer is not easily given, although this has been one of the primary concerns of Tennyson's critics. In this book, the author shows how Tennyson became the mental voyager exploring both the inner and outer worlds, and further, how in making the two voyages he followed the pattern of development of other Romantic artists of the nineteenth century. He examines certain themes and images in Tennyson's early verse which in their frequent recurrence attain symbolic status, and by doing so, he shows that there is a very clear-cut pattern in Tennyson's poetry, one which is repeated time and again throughout the poet's work to 1850.
In Memoriam
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron TennysonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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