Alfred Tennyson
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821.8 GOL The golden treasury of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language | 821.8 LAW/H Hopkins re-constructed: life, poetry and the tradition | 821.8 MAX/S Swinburne | 821.8 PER/A Alfred Tennyson | 821.809 ROU A Routledge literary sourcebook on the poems of W.B. Yeats | 821.809 WBY W.B. Yeats: an anthology of recent criticism | 821.9 PHI Philip Larkin |
An elegant, accessible study of the rich life of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, exploring in turn its complex and paradoxical fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative and loss.
W.H. Auden said of Tennyson that 'he had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet'. Many readers have relished his opulent word-music, but less simply admiring critics have sometimes regarded that marvellous verbal gift with something like suspicion - as though it were merely a matter of beautifully empty words, or worse, a distracting screen used to pass off disreputable Victorian values. In this study, Seamus Perry returns to the extraordinary language of Tennyson's verse, and finds in the intricacies of his greatest poetry, not an evasion of responsibilities, but rather the memorably intricate expression of hesitancies and honest doubts - including doubts, not least, about the charms and obligations of his own art. Covering the great range of the poet's long career, Perry describes the rich life of Tennyson's lyrical imagination, exploring in turn its complex and paradoxical fascinations with recurrence, progress, narrative, and loss.
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