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From:Victorian Newsletter (Vol. 117)In an 1834 letter to Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill wrote, Mill's contrast is between F.D. Maurice's Eustace Conway (1834) and Arthur Coningsby (1833) by John Sterling, the latter the subject of a biography by...
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From: PMLA[(essay date 1912) In the following essay, Cunliffe compares Browning’s view of various revolutionary developments in science, religion, and sociopolitical relations with those of fellow Victorian poets George Meredith...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis 1889 poem by Alfred Tennyson, "On One who Affected an Effeminate Manner," articulates an idea about gender the complexity of which belies the verse's brevity--the best people combine the virtues associated with...
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From:Victorian Newsletter (Vol. 117)
The market (place) and the muse: Tennyson, Lincolnshire, and the nineteenth-century idea of the book
One of the paradoxes of Tennyson's career rests on his attitude toward the publishing revolution and new print-formats of his time. This paradox is best summarized as the problem of the "little green Tennysons." From... -
From:The English Review (Vol. 16, Issue 2)In 1833, when he was 24, Tennyson received news of the death of his close friend Arthur Hallam. Within 3 weeks, he had written 'Ulysses' and begun work on his long poem In Memoriam A. H. H., which, on its publication in...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe work on Tennyson published in 2010, including two books and numerous essays, addresses issues of genre, biography, literary history, cultural memory, and visuality. In "Form Things: Looking at Genre through...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedClose reading and formal analysis, sometimes coupled with psychoanalytic theory, came to the fore in work on Tennyson in 2005, extending his links to aestheticism (as in Angela Leighton's "Touching Forms: Tennyson and...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 2014 Tennyson scholarship focused principally on his long poems, often within a historicist framework and with an emphasis on gender. I begin with an exception to these dominant approaches, Jesse Hoffman's "Arthur...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 310, Issue 9440)'He had the finest ear of any English poet,' said W.H. Auden. 'He was also, undoubtedly, the stupidest.' This famous jibe aimed at Tennyson (whose bicentenary falls on 6 August) is revealing in its shrill and almost...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMichael O'Neill has shown how closely Tennyson read Shelley, and that Alastor in particular possessed a special "centrality" to Tennyson's "poetic vision and practice." (1) The poem certainly anticipates a recurrent...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn concluding his 1833 essay "The Two Kinds of Poetry," John Stuart Mill turns to the role of the critic and suggests that, just as a person must be possessed of a certain amount of feeling and philosophy to be poet, so...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn August 1829, during a "voyage among the Polynesian islands," the surgeon George Bennett acquired a pearly (or chambered) nautilus (nautilus pompilius). This creature had been spotted "floating on the surface of the...
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From:Conradiana (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn "Youth," a picaresque chronicle about the reversals of fortune endured by the captain and crew of the barque Judea, Joseph Conrad creates an interior parallel journey for his narrator Marlow that is based on two...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5753)Alfred, Lord Tennyson's list of books "On Round Table in Drawing Room" in Farringford, his house on the Isle of Wight, has been shown to contain a clue to a previously unsuspected enthusiasm. Towards the end of the first...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen Tennyson was appointed poet laureate in 1850, soon after the protracted composition and triumphant publication of In Memoriam, the event might have struck him--indeed, might now strike us--as a pattern-confirming...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Idylls of the King [functioned as] a shell to encase the nineteenth century. --Robert Bernard Martin (1) The single poems making up the collective Idylls of the King were released over a very long period of...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis survey focuses on 2020 Tennyson scholarship, but I begin with an exception: Simon Cooke's The Moxon Tennyson: A Landmark in Victorian Illustration (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2021). (1) Cooke's lavishly illustrated...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the spring of 1889, Tennyson was very sick with rheumatic gout. He had fallen ill the previous September and suffered two serious relapses in the subsequent nine months. Tennyson seemed to be dying. Benjamin Jowett...
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From:Victorian Newsletter (Vol. 117)I. In his explication of and attack on the "pathetic fallacy," Ruskin uses the human perception of color as a heuristic analogy in his attempt to demolish what he considers a specious and pernicious...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFor over thirty years critics have tried Tennyson as an "imperialist of the imagination." To summarize their case: from a young age Tennyson immersed himself in travel literature to imagine a life far away from the...