TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry, Seamus
TI  - Alfred Tennyson 
T2  - Writers and Their Work
SN  - 9788126913008
U1  - 821.8 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Atlantic  
KW  - English literature-Poetry
KW  - English poet-Biography-Life history
KW  - Alfred Tennyson
N2  - 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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