Tennyson and Tradition / Robert Pattison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pattison, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

Pastoral poetry--History and criticism.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

Pastoral poetry--History and criticism.

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here is an analysis of Tennyson's major poetry that clarifies the poet's relationship to the artistic traditions he so extensively exploited and so radically modified. It is a portrait of Tennyson as manipulator, not mere borrower, of forms. Tennyson and Tradition traces the threads that at the same time unite Tennyson's work and tie it to the traditions the poet believed he had inherited. Pattison shows why Tennyson considered the venerable idyll form a fitting vehicle for his modern portraits--above all the Idylls of the King. Analysis of In Memoriam brings further understanding of Tennyson's poetic credo.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

ONE Tennyson and the Uses of Tradition

TWO The Sources of Tennyson's Idyll

THREE Tennyson's Early Poetry and the Idyllic Tradition

FOUR The English Idyls and Other Poems

FIVE The Fuller Minstrel

SIX The Various World: Tennyson's Epic Vision

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-42373-9

OCLC:

1013957026