Tennyson: Seven Essays

by Philip Collins (Editor)

Overview

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley (Harvard). In Memoriam and Maud are central texts but many other poems are discussed - lyrics, dramatic monologues, narratives, ballads - and such recurrent topics as loss, the numinous, and distance in space and time. The poems are related to their intellectual context and to other poets from Wordsworth to Edward FitzGerald.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349223732
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword; P.Collins - Notes on Contributors - Tennyson, Coleridge and The Cambridge Apostles; J.Beer - Tennyson's Idle Tears; E.Griffiths - Tennyson: the Lyric in the Distance; J.H.Buckley - The Archetype that Waits: The Lover's Tale, In Memoriam and Maud; A.Day - Tennyson in the 1850s: from Geology to Pathology: In Memorian (1850) to Maud (1855); I.Armstrong - Larger Hopes and the New Hedonism: Tennyson and FitzGerald; N.Page - Tennyson and Victorian Balladry; W.W.Robson - Index