Tennyson among the poets : bicentenary essays / edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry.

Other author Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert.
Other author Perry, Seamus.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxvi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- Tennyson's dying fall / Peter McDonald -- Tennyson's retrospective view / Dinah Birch -- Tennyson's limitations / Christopher Decker -- Tennyson's grotesque / Aidan Day -- Tennyson, Browning, Virgil / Daniel Karlin -- Tennyson and the voices of Ovid's heroines / A.A. Markley -- On lines and grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson / Eric Griffiths -- Epic sensibilities : 'old man' Milton and the making of Tennyson's Idylls of the king / N.K. Sugimura -- The wheels of being : Tennyson and Shelley / Michael O'Neill -- 'Brother-poets' : Tennyson and Browning / Donald S. Hair -- Friendship, poetry, and insurrection : the Kemble letters / Marion Shaw -- Tennyson's humour / Matthew Bevis -- Edward Lear and Tennyson's nonsense / Richard Cronin -- 'Men my brothers, men the workers' : Tennyson and the Victorian working class poet / Kirstie Blair -- 'Frater ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne / Linda K. Hughes -- After Tennyson : the presence of the poet, 1892-1918 / Samantha Matthews -- Tennyson, by ear / Angela Leighton -- Hardy's Tennyson / Helen Small -- T.S. Eliot and Tennyson / John Morton -- Tennyson and Auden / John Fuller -- Betjeman's Tennyson / Seamus Perry.
Abstract A revaluation of Tennyson's achievements and influence. Explores the multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers: his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009935894
ISBN9780199557134 (hc : acid-free paper)
ISBN0199557136 (hc : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR5588 .T446 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold