Tennyson among the poets [[electronic resource] ] : bicentenary essays / / edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (453 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.8
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Criticism and interpretation
• Altri autori: Douglas-FairhurstRobert PerrySeamus
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Texts and Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 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 Humour13. Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense; 14. 'Men my brothers, 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. Betjeman's Tennyson; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 socialand cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This vol
• Titolo autorizzato: Tennyson among the poets
• ISBN: 1-383-04575-5; 0-19-157177-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791999403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II