This book provides a valuable introduction for students and other
readers of Tennyson's poetry and presents an account of its major
themes and concerns. Elaine Jordan examines Tennyson's uneasy
position as a writer of the male middle-class ascendancy and shows
how his poetry reveals ambivalent attitudes towards manliness, war,
and nineteenth-century scientific rationality. In his early Idylls
she finds him experimenting with different political attitudes,
investigating the relationship between individual happiness and
general progress; in his monologues he is caught between motion and
stasis, calling into question the Romantic quest to integrate the
language of self with its object; in The Princess he addresses
contemporary debates on the role and status of women; his In
Memoriam explores loss and relationship through images of the body
and questions of language; Maud deals with images of masculinity
and femininity in relation to to violence and sexual love; and
Idylls of the King, his most imperialist and most pessimistic poem,
highlights his regard for intuition and vision in the face of
scientific 'laws' of nature and society. The study introduces these
themes and shows how they relate to each other.
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