Author: Emile Lauvriere
Publisher:
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781429795791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Seamus Perry
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0746311079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 135001253X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 1132
ISBN-13:
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