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Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry
454 pages
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2 halftones, 2 cartoons
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234x156mm
978-0-19-955713-4
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Hardback
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08 October 2009
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- A unique celebration of the leading Victorian poet in his bicentenary year
- Original essays from the world's leading Tennyson scholars
- Covers a wide range of authors (in addition to Tennyson) and literary topics
Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a
wide range of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors. Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century.
Readership: Students and scholars of Victorian poetry and of poetry in general; lovers of Tennyson
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Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Seamus Perry, Fellow and Tutor in English, Balliol College, Oxford Contributors:
Matthew Bevis, University of York
Dinah Birch, Liverpool University
Kirstie Blair, University of Glasgow
Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow
Aidan Day, University of Dundee
Christopher Decker, University of Nevada
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, Oxford
John Fuller, Magdalen College, Oxford
Eric Griffiths, Trinity College, Cambridge
Donald S.
Hair, University of Western Ontario
Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Daniel Karlin, University of Sheffield
Angela Leighton, Trinity College, Cambridge
Peter McDonald, Christ Church, Oxford
A. A. Markley, Penn State University
Samantha Matthews, University of Sheffield
John Morton, University of Greenwich
Michael O'Neill, Durham University
Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford
Marion Shaw, Loughborough University
Helen Small, Pembroke College, Oxford
N.K. Sugimura, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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"This splendid piece of book production is a fitting memorial to an outstanding show." - R.A.Carroll, Society of Lincolnshire History and Archaelogy "a timely reconsideration of [Tennyson's] achievement ... substantial and perceptive essays" - Nicholas Shirmpton, Times Literary Supplement "This is a wonderful, stimulating, courageous, and not infrequently brilliant book on Tennyson, poetry, and poets" - Tennyson Research Bulletin
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Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations
Christopher Ricks: Prefatory Note
1: Peter McDonald: Tennyson's Dying Fall
2: Dinah Birch: Tennyson's Retrospective View
3: Christopher Decker: Tennyson's Limitations
4: Aidan Day: Tennyson's Grotesque
5: Daniel Karlin: Tennyson, Browning, Virgil
6: A. A. Markley: Tennyson and the Voices of Ovid's Heroines
7: Eric Griffiths: On lines and grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson
8: N. K. Sugimura: Epic Sensibilities: 'Old Man' Milton and the Making of Tennyson's Idylls of the King
9: Michael O'Neill: The Wheels of Being: Tennyson and Shelley
10: Donald S. Hair: 'Brother-poets': Tennyson and Browning
11: Marion Shaw: Friendship, Poetry, and Insurrection: The Kemble Letters
12: Matthew Bevis: Tennyson's Humour
13: Richard Cronin: Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense
14: Kirstie Blair: 'Men, my borther, men the workers': Tennyson and the Victorian Working-CLass Poet
15: Linda K. Hughes: 'Frater, ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne
16: Samantha Matthews: After Tennyson: the Presence of the Poet, 1892-1918
17: Angela Leighton: Tennyson, by Ear
18: Helen Small: Hardy's Tennyson
19: John Morton: T. S. Eliot and Tennyson
20: John Fuller: Tennyson and Auden
21: Seamus Perry: Betjemen's Tennyson
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