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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Alfred Tennyson"”.
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A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse
… by Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and the lesser-known but fascinating Darwinian poet Mathilde Blind draw on language-science to explore the redistribution of political power in the age of reform.</p>
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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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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… wake of loss in the poetry of Letitia Landon, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. Howard argues that the resonance of many voices in Victorian elegies underscores a paratactic, eclectic approach to the recovery of voice, in which repurposing, echoing, and …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… and middle- and upperclass writers (e.g., Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins). In doing so, I queer traditional canons and challenge assumptions of human exceptionalism and independence. This work invites us to acknowledge a multispecies network with whom we are embedded, offering a …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… 'high' poetry of Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to the popular Gothic novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of insanity by …
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Radical Conservatism and Victorian Poetry: 1830-1906
… style provide a model for understanding poems by Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Charles Doughty – all of whom transform existing expressive repertoires in ways that offer neither a return to myths of origin nor a simple break from the past. Where Carlyle deems poetry incapable of …
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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, …
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In memorium: A test of faith
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Doubt and Faith in Tennyson's Poetry
Alfred Tennyson, the nineteenth century poetic giant of Victorian England, who served as poet laureate for forty-two years, is best known for his elegy, In Memoriam, The Idylls of the King, and such short poems as "Ulysses," "The Lotos Eaters," "Flower in the Crannied Wall," and "Crossing the Bar." …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Tennyson, and Virginia Woolf: three major figures of British art and letters who have received much critical attention individually, but have not yet been studied together. In this project I consider the valedictory works of these artists at their convergence, first …
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"My love involves the love before": Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H.," Temporo-Narrative progress, and the Petrarchan lyric sequence tradition
… thesis examines temporo-narrative progress in Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H." as a means of situating that work within the Petrarchan lyric sequence tradition, in relation to which it has most often been treated as tangential. "In Memoriam A.H.H.," I will demonstrate, exhibits a more persistent …
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Tennyson and the Revision of Song
Writing in the 1890s, in an early account of Tennyson’s poetry, the Victorian anthologist F. T. Palgrave was keen to maintain the myth of the spontaneous singer. ‘More than once’, he recorded, Tennyson’s ‘poems sprang’ from a ‘nucleus’, ‘a brief melodious phrase’ or ‘song’, which, if not …
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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 …