Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays [Hardcover]

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Editor), Seamus Perry (Editor)

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Hardcover: 392 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Nov 7 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199557136
ISBN-13: 978-0199557134
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 839 g

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"The essays are uniformly strong and collectively add to the understanding of an important poet who has, at times, been undervalued in recent years." --Choice

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Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that, without at all ignoring social and cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North America, seeks to bring such forms of attention to bear on the immense variety of Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors. Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third century.

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