Tennyson Among the Novelists

Tennyson Among the Novelists
Author: John Morton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441176624

Until now, the study of literary allusion has focused on allusions made by poets to other poets. In Tennyson Among the Novelists, John Morton presents the first book-length account of the presence of a poet's work in works of prose fiction. As well as shedding new light on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history, Morton covers a wide variety of novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, offering a fresh look at their approach to writing. Morton shows how Tennyson's poetry, despite its frequent depreciation by critics, has survived as a vivifying presence in the novel from the Victorian period to the present day.

Tennyson Among the Novelists

Tennyson Among the Novelists
Author: John Morton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144110237X

A study of allusions to Alfred Tennyson's poetry in works of fiction from the Victorian period to the present day. >

Tennyson

Tennyson
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.

South by Southeast

South by Southeast
Author: Blair Underwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451650639

In this next pulse-racing instalment to an award-winning mystery series, Tennyson Hardwick faces his most challenging case yet. When the actor-turned-sleuth is filming his part in a television detective series in South Beach, Florida, his family join him on set. When his daughter's friend goes mysteriously missing and later washes ashore, the authorities fear the death is connected to a highly dangerous serial killer. Tennyson believes he knows who the killer is, but the suspect disappears...or so he thinks. Soon Tennyson and his family are in grave danger.

In Memoriam

In Memoriam
Author: Alfred Tennyson
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780393979268

Tennyson s central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriam s formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennyson s use of the stanza and the poem s rhyme scheme."

Tennyson’s Gift

Tennyson’s Gift
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2011-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007437579

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.

Casanegra

Casanegra
Author: Blair Underwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743287320

Struggling to hold on to his career while endeavoring to redeem a scandalous past that estranged him from his family, actor Tennyson Hardwick finds himself accused of murder in the aftermath of his strict LAPD captain father's stroke. Reprint.

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson
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.

Parting Words

Parting Words
Author: Justin A. Sider
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813941830

Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal. Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or seafaring farewells, "parting words" played a crucial role in the social imagination of Victorian writing. In this compelling new book, Justin Sider traces these public addresses across a wide range of works, from poems by Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, to essays by Twain and Wilde, to novels by Dickens and Eliot. Ironically, while the Victorian era saw the loss of faith in a unitary national public, it asked poetry to address just such a public. Attending to the form, rather than the discursive content, of poets' engagement with public culture, Parting Words explains how the valedictory allowed Victorian poets to explore the ways their poems might be received by distant and anonymous readers in an emergent mass culture. Using a wide array of materials such as letters and reviews to describe the rapidly changing print culture in which poets were intervening, Sider shows how the growing diversification and destabilization of the Victorian reading public was countered by the demand for a public poetry. Characteristically, the speakers of Tennyson's "Ulysses" and Matthew Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna" imagine their farewells as simultaneous entrances into a public space where they and their readers, however distant, might yet meet. This new consciousness anticipated modernist poetry, which in turn used the valedictory to underscore the futility and alienation of such hopes.