Victorian Geology and the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author | : Laura Peyton Roberts |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Laura Peyton Roberts |
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Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Michelle Geric |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319661108 |
This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth century and beyond. Gender ideologies in The Princess (1847) are read via High Miller’s geology, while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist, comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined along-side In Memoriam (1851) and Maud (1855). The book argues that Tennyson’s experimentation with Lyell’s geology produced a remarkable ‘uniformitarian’ poetics that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the development of divisions between science and culture, and that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth century.
Author | : Laurence W. Mazzeno |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 147664084X |
Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature. This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.
Author | : John Batchelor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1639360824 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history: he skillfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Resolving never to be anything except 'a poet', he wore his hair long, smoked incessantly, and sported a cloak and wide-brimmed Spanish hat.Tennyson ranged widely in his poetry, turning his interests in geology, evolution and Arthurian legend into verse, but much of his work relates to his personal life. The poet who wrote The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade has become a permanent part of our culture. This enjoyable and thoughtful new biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and the pressures of his era, and the personal relationships that made the man.
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Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Alexis Harley |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611486017 |
What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species extinction? Autobiologies explores the importance of such questions in Victorian life writing. Analysing memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories Alexis Harley demonstrates how theories of natural selection shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject—and also how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations.
Author | : Kalika Ranjan Chatterjee |
Publisher | : New Delhi : S. Chand |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Science in literature |
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On Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1809-1892, British poet.
Author | : Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1460404459 |
A century ago Tennyson had begun to be dismissed as a poet whose work embodied everything the modern world was looking to leave behind. He still seems to readers to embody the substance of the Victorian era more fully than any other poet—but nowadays that is counted in his favor. Critics continue to find layers of complexity in poems once thought simplistic—while appreciating with fresh ears Tennyson’s aural mastery. This new edition includes the two long poems In Memoriam and Maud: A Monodrama in their entirety, all the short poems for which Tennyson remains famous, and a generous selection of his lesser-known poetry, together with a concise introduction to the poet and his work, and substantial headnotes for In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Unlike other editions that provide a selection of Tennyson’s work, this one includes both marginal glosses of obscure or archaic words and phrases, and extensive annotations at the bottom of each page. Appendices of visual material are also included.
Author | : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781020459825 |
A collection of poems spanning three and a half decades by one of the greatest Victorian poets, Alfred Lord Tennyson. With themes ranging from love and loss to nature and mythology, these poems continue to inspire readers and showcase Tennyson's masterful use of language and rhythm. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.