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082			_a821.8 _bPER/A
100	0		_aPerry, Seamus
245	1	2	_aAlfred Tennyson
260			_aNew Delhi _bAtlantic _c2010
300			_a190p.
490	0		_aWriters and Their Work
520			_aAn 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.
650			_aEnglish literature-Poetry
650	0		_aEnglish poet-Biography-Life history
650	0		_aAlfred Tennyson
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