3 Tennyson's distinguished Oxford friend Benjamin Jowett had been instrumental in seeing the proposal for Tennyson's DCL through Congregation, the governing body of the university. Brilliant dons were not obviously to Tennyson's taste, ...
the ways in which male relationships between men are cemented by the traffic in women as exchangeable objects or counters of value (the works of Luce Irigaray and Claude Levi-Strauss on the exchange of women within kinship systems can ...
One of the great Victorian poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems
The Poems of Tennyson, 3 vols, London, 1987. Shatto, Susan (ed.), Tennyson's 'Maud': A Definitive Edition, London, 1986. Shatto, Susan and Shaw, Marion (eds), Tennyson: 'In Memoriam', Oxford, 1982. Lord Tennyson, Hallam(ed.) ...
Describes Tennyson's confused and unhappy early life and analyses the distinctive poetry which developed from his experiences
In 1850, he succeeded William Wordsworth as Queen Victoria's Poet Laurete, and this book begins and ends with Tennyson's direct contacts with the Queen, whom Tennyson had first came to know at audience at an Osborne House on the Isle of ...
Terry Eagleton Terry Eagleton is another important critic who is committed to uniting cultural practice and political practice. In 1983 in Literary Theory: An Introduction he argued that literary criticism should enrich our lives ...
It’s 1932, the Depression. Things are evening out among people everywhere. Tennyson Fontaine and her sister Hattie live in a rickety shack of a house with their mother and father and their wild dog, Jos.
Tennyson's heart and head pounded in disbelief. “Are—are we acquainted?” asked Uncle Twigs. “Not exactly,” said Bartholomew. “I am looking for a Mr. Tennyson Fontaine, who I assume is a relation of yours.” Zulma sucked in her breath and ...
The same fiction had been at work in a poem published in 1832, The Miller's Daughter'. It has a tender lyricism, and Tennyson made this possible for himself by telling of a successful young love seen from the vantage point of tranquil ...
R, ii, 520n refers to Valerie Pitt, Tennyson Laureate (London: Barrie & Rockliffe, 1962, p. ... The Poems of Tennyson, 3 vols (Harlow: Longman, 1987). ... Tennyson, The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson 1821–1850, ed.
This collection includes, of course, such famous poems as “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” There are extracts from all the major masterpieces—“Idylls of the King,” “The Princess,” “In ...
Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' His genius is ...
Presents a fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry. This collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: 'The Princess', 'In Memoriam', 'Maud', and 'Idylls of the King'.
Acclaimed by both the literary and academic worlds, it is acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship and has established itself as the authoritative edition of the great poet of the Victorian age.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time.
This book presents the 1909 Leslie Stephen Lecture, which was delivered by William Paton Ker at Cambridge University.
Represents Tennyson's work in many poetic forms over more than sixty years. The collection includes a substantial introduction, explanatory notes and bibliographical information.