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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Alfred Lord Tennyson"”.
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
… social issues in Victorian England. Like G. B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional Poetry: The Tractarian Mode (1989), this project situates individual poets in their cultural and religious contexts, and it encourages an understanding of devotional verse as an important feature of Victorian poetry. …
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The Political Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Conservative Statement on the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of Victorian England
Alfred Tennyson was first and foremost a poet, and the pursuit of that skill was his only vocation. Nonetheless he did have more than a passing interest in the science, religion, and politics of the day, and these interests are manifested in his poetry. Much has been written on Tennyson's religious …
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the Arthurian Legends: Re-writing and Re-envisioning Women’s Roles in 19th Century England
<p>Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) the poet and Julia Margaret Cameron the photographer (1813-1879) worked collaboratively on the Idylls of the King; a work of epic poetry that Tennyson wrote about the legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. His re-envisioned tales were …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… Malory, and <em>The Idylls of the King</em> by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In addition, this thesis has drawn upon literary criticism, including that of Maureen Fries and Norris J. Lacy, in proving how Guinevere’s character marks the societal values and beliefs of each author’s time period, as well …
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Death in the Royal Family: Victorian Funeral Sermon Techniques in Tennyson's National Poetry
… England. Queen Victoria's poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, confronted death on a literary level. His national elegiac poetry — addressed to Victoria — is illuminated when read as a funeral sermon. By drawing out the funeral sermon techniques Tennyson incorporates, we see that he …
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The Epitome And Portrait Of Modern Society: Ouida As Social Barometer Of The Victorian Era
… Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson when charting the progression of the various social anxieties that informed the Victorian age. These, along with other authors considered part of the canon, offer valuable insight into nineteenth-century values, and their …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Matthew Arnold, David Friedrich Strauss, Ludwig Feuerbach, George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. One effect of the limits of language was on religious belief itself, specifically as pertains to …
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Frontiers of Consciousness: Tennyson, Hardy, Hopkins, Eliot
… into the ways in which four poets – Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – imagine what it might mean to labour in verse towards the ‘frontiers of consciousness’. This is an old question about the value of poetry, about the kinds of understanding, …