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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.
Author | : Lynne Truss |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Large type books |
ISBN | : 9781597220590 |
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll).
Author | : Lynne Truss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Isle of Wight (England) |
ISBN | : 9781861977137 |
Unexpectedly moving and luminously wise, Tennyson's Gift is the funniest novel ever written about a Victorian Poet Laureate. In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and; the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts are thrown into the company of the remarkable Lorenzo Fowler, the American phrenologist, and his daughter Jessie. Enter mathematician Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), known to Jessie as the 'fiendish pedagogue', and Lynne Truss's wonderfully imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and riotous farce begins to take flight.
Author | : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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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.
Author | : Assoc Prof Kathryn Ledbetter |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409489736 |
This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Tennyson published more than sixty poems in serial publications, from his debut as a Cambridge prize-winning poet with "Timbuctoo" in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal to his last public composition as Poet Laureate with "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale" in The Nineteenth Century. In addition, poems such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were shaped by his reading of newspapers. Ledbetter explores the ironies and tensions created by Tennyson's attitudes toward publishing in Victorian periodicals and the undeniable benefits to his career. She situates the poet in an interdependent commodity relationship with periodicals, viewing his individual poems as textual modules embedded in a page of meaning inscribed by the periodical's history, the poet's relationship with the periodical's readers, an image sharing the page whether or not related to the poem, and cultural contexts that create new meanings for Tennyson's work. Her book enriches not only our understanding of Tennyson's relationship to periodical culture but the textual implications of a poem's relationship with other texts on a periodical page and the meanings available to specific groups of readers targeted by individual periodicals.
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."
Author | : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780393972795 |
This volume offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Tennyson's poetry available for the serious student.
Author | : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Henry Spackman Pancoast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : English literature |
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