Tennyson Among The Novelists

Author : John Morton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441176622

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Tennyson Among the Novelists by John Morton Pdf

Until now, the study of literary allusion has focused on allusions made by poets to other poets. In Tennyson Among the Novelists, John Morton presents the first book-length account of the presence of a poet's work in works of prose fiction. As well as shedding new light on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history, Morton covers a wide variety of novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, offering a fresh look at their approach to writing. Morton shows how Tennyson's poetry, despite its frequent depreciation by critics, has survived as a vivifying presence in the novel from the Victorian period to the present day.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476640846

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Alfred Tennyson by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.

Author : Seamus Perry
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746311073

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Alfred Tennyson by Seamus Perry Pdf

W.H. Auden said of Tennyson that 'he had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet'. Many readers have relished his opulent word-music, but less simply admiring critics have sometimes regarded that marvellous verbal gift with something like suspicion - as though it were merely a matter of beautifully empty words, or worse, a distracting screen used to pass off disreputable Victorian values. In this study, Seamus Perry returns to the extraordinary language of Tennyson's verse, and finds in the intricacies of his greatest poetry, not an evasion of responsibilities, but rather the memorably intricate expression of hesitancies and honest doubts - including doubts, not least, about the charms and obligations of his own art. Covering the great range of the poet's long career, Perry describes the rich life of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, exploring in turn its complex and paradoxical fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss.

Author : Leonee Ormond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350012530

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The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe by Leonee Ormond Pdf

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed him to a certain amount of patriotic writing. This volume focuses on his impact on the continent, presenting a major scholarly analysis of Tennyson's wider reception in different areas of Europe. It considers reader and critical responses and explores the effect of his poetry upon his contemporaries and later writers, as well as his influence upon illustrators, painters and musicians. The leading international contributors raise questions of translation and publication and of the choices made for this purpose along with the way in which his ideas and style influenced European writing and culture. Tennyson's reputation in Anglophone countries is now assured, following a decline in the years after his death. This volume enables us to chart the changes in Tennyson's European reputation during the later 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448138562

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Tennyson by John Batchelor Pdf

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history:he skilfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Like many successful Victorians, he was a provincial determined to make good in the capital while retaining his regional strengths. One of eleven children, he remained close to his extended family and never lost his Lincolnshire accent.Resolving never to be anything except ‘a poet’, he wore his hair long, smoked incessantly and sported a cloak and wide-brimmed Spanish hat. Tennyson ranged widely in his poetry, turning his interests in geology, evolution and Arthurian legend into verse, but much of his workrelates to his personal life. The tragic loss of Arthur Hallam, a brilliant friend and fellow Apostle at Cambridge, fed into some of his most successful and best-known poems. It took Tennyson seventeen years to complete his great elegy for Hallam, In Memoriam, a work which established his fame and secured his appointment as Poet Laureate. The poet who wrote The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade has become a permanent part of our culture. This enjoyable and thoughtful new biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and Tennyson’s attempts at play writing, as well as the pressures of his age and the personal relationships that made the man.

Author : Barbara Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0901958239

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Tennyson and the Novelists by Barbara Hardy Pdf

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,Seamus Perry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191609640

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Tennyson Among the Poets by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,Seamus Perry Pdf

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.

Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066141981

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The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker Pdf

'The Age of Tennyson' by Hugh Walker is an examination of the literary period from 1830 to 1870. While this time is often referred to as the Tennysonian era, the book explains why it ended over twenty years before Tennyson's death. The volume highlights Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Ruskin as the survivors into a new period but includes sketches of their later works as well. The book's main focus is on the greater men of the era and their search for truth and understanding, as seen in science, psychology, and the development of clear and precise writing.

Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007437573

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Tennyson’s Gift by Lynne Truss Pdf

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.

Author : Joanna Colenbrander
Publisher : Andrea Deutsch
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029406843

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A Portrait of Fryn by Joanna Colenbrander Pdf

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,Seamus Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199557134

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Tennyson Among the Poets by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,Seamus Perry Pdf

A revaluation of Tennyson's achievements and influence. Explores the multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers: his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.

Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892007

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Tennyson by Rebecca Stott Pdf

Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The Introduction discusses ways in which orthodox critical approaches have dominated readings of Tennyson's poetry and provides a critical overview of the radical reappraisal of his work. It also provides a guide to the varied ways in which these new debates have shaped and are shaping themselves, with a final discussion of the future directions which Tennyson criticism is likely to take. The essays chosen cover and reflect a range of modes of critical enquiry compelling in themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Literature
ISBN : MINN:319510023513554

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Library of the World's Best Literature: Dictionary of authors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erik Gray
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801457418

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Milton and the Victorians by Erik Gray Pdf

The Victorian period was a golden age for the study of Milton. Yet the influence of Milton on poetry, and on literature more generally, during the period is often obscure. Victorian writers rarely display the overt, self-conscious engagement with Milton that typified so much Romantic writing earlier in the nineteenth century. In Milton and the Victorians Erik Gray argues that this shift represents not a breach but an expansion: if Milton's influence seems less remarkable than before, it is due not to his absence but to his pervasiveness. Through detailed consideration of works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, and George Eliot, Gray shows how Victorian writers tended to draw upon the less sublime, more understated elements of Milton's writings. In tracing the characteristically oblique influence of Milton on Victorian authors, Gray also draws attention to important aspects of Milton's own work, notably the way it often depicts power being exerted indirectly. Gray thus proposes new and nuanced models of literary relations, while offering original and elegant readings both of Milton's poetry and of major works of Victorian literature.

Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP8I7

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In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf