"My love involves the love before": Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H.," Temporo-Narrative progress, and the Petrarchan lyric sequence tradition

This 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 sense of temporal progress than is typical in other examples of the Petrarchan genre, by virtue of its containing more frequent direct continuities of thought between individual poems than is typical. Such continuities, however, are not in themselves entirely unprecedented in the genre, so that their more persistent presence in Tennyson’s work represents more a stretching than a breaching of generic parameters, and "In Memoriam A.H.H." in any case also utilizes other, more conventional methods to contribute to its uniquely strong sense of sequence-wide temporo-narrative progress.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Estep, Blake

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jordan, Joseph P.
• Smith, Joyce C.; Guy, Matthew
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Poets, English -- 19th century -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. In memoriam

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English, eng

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https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/590

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oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1744