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The Poetry of Tennyson (Hardcover)
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The Poetry of Tennyson (Hardcover)
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This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the entire range
of Tennyson's poetry, with emphasis on the great period up to and
including In Memoriam, but also with chapters on Maud, the Idylls
of the King, and the best of the later poems. Taking the view that
every poem contains its own literary history, Dwight Culler traces
Tennyson's evolving image of himself as a poet and the relation of
this image to changing literary structures. He particularly
emphasizes the "frame" device by which Tennyson first mediated
between himself and the world and then, inverting it, placed
himself in the world. He also explores the longer "composted" poem
by which Tennyson declared himself a Victorian Alexandrian.
Eschewing the autobiographical emphasis of recent years, Culler
provides readings of Maud, Locksley Hall, The Palace of Art,
Tithonus, and the Idylls of the King that depart significantly from
previous interpretations. His sympathy for the Victorian element in
Tennyson also recovers for modern taste several neglected areas of
the poetry: the English Idylls, the civic poem, and the poems of
social converse. Culler sees Tennyson's faith in the magical power
of the word as the source of his gift and, when he loses that
faith, the reason for its decline.
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