In memoriam : authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; edited by Erik Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892, author.

Contributor:

Gray, Erik Irving, 1972- editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Norton critical editions : Victorian era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833--Poetry.

Hallam, Arthur Henry.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. In memoriam.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson.

Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833--In literature.

Hallam, Arthur Henry, 1811-1833.

Elegiac poetry, English--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, English.

Friendship in literature.

In memoriam (Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron).

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 292 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This Norton Critical Edition of In Memoriam features the profound nineteenth-century poem by Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, with editorial annotations. Written after the passing of Tennyson's close friend Arthur Henry Hallam, the poem addresses themes of grief, death, and loss. The "Background and Contexts" section of this volume provides a better look at the relationship between the two men along with literary inspirations and scientific backgrounds for the poem itself. "Criticism" includes contemporary reviews and modern critical readings, ranging from analysis of the structure and genre of the poem to considerations of Tennyson's sexuality, materiality, and views on scientific challenges to faith. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Text of In Memoriam

Backgrounds and Contexts

Hallam, Lord Tennyson

From Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir

Arthur Henry Hallam

William Ewart Gladstone

Arthur Hallam

On the Picture of the Three Fates in the Palazzo Pitti, at Florence

To At

[To Emily Tennyson]

[Manly Love]

Alfred Tennyson

To-

Sonnet [As when with downcast eyes]

Literary Contexts

Catullus

[Elegy for his brother]

William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXVII

Sonnet XXX

Sonnet CXV

Sonnet CXVI

John Milton

From Lycidas

[Methought I saw]

Percy Shelley

From Adonais

Scientific Contexts

Charles Lyell

From Principles of Geology

William Whewell

The Nebular Hypothesis

[Robert Chambers]

From Vestiges of the Natural

History of Creation

Criticism

Reviews

[John Forster]

The Examiner (June 8, 1850)

[G. H. Lewes]

The Leader (June 22, 1850)

Sharpe's London Journal (July 1850)

Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review (July 1850)

[T. H. Gill]

Prospective Review (July 1850)

[Coventry Patmore]

North British Review (August 1850)

[Franklin Lushington]

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1850)

[Charles Kingsley]

Fraser's Magazine (September 1850)

English Review (September 1850)

Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review (October 1850)

[Manley Hopkins]

The Times (November 28, 1851)

[George Eliot]

Westminster Review (October 1855)

Critical Readings

A. C. Bradley

The Structure of In Memoriam

T S. Eliot

From In Memoriam

Eleanor Bustin Mattes

[Scientific Challenges to Faith and Reassurances]

Edgar Finley Shannon, Jr. The Reception of In Memoriam

Peter Hinchcliffe

Elegy and Epithalamium in In Memoriam

Jeff Nunokawa

In Memoriam and the Extinction of the Homosexual

Sarah Gates

Poetics, Metaphysics, Genre: The Stanza Form of In Memoriam

Aidan Day

Tennyson's Grotesque

Matthew Rowlinson

History, Materiality and Type in Tennyson's In Memoriam

Michelle Geric

[The Geological Model]

Michael D. Hurley

[Faith and Form in In Memoriam].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393679236

0393679233

OCLC:

1150821962