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This study examines Tennyson's portrayals of the erotic and
creative impulses, reading the poet's ubiquitous lover-artists as
tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being
human, a condition of personal fragmentation and limited knowledge.
Ostensibly seeking to fulfill erotic wishes, construct utopias, or
create grand artistic works, Tennyson's characters engage in a
fundamentally spiritual quest, yearning to divine desire: to
eternalize the fulfilment of their deepest wishes. Freud revealed
how Victorians sublimated sexual desire into religious impulse.
This book demonstrates, however, the remarkable way in which
Tennyson's poems transact the opposing projection, transfiguring
spiritual desire into erotic art. Brilliantly negotiating a middle
ground between scientific skepticism and reactionary religiosity,
his vastly popular poems suggest that fulfilment of "the wish too
strong for words to name" lies in a sacramentality: only as means
do art and eros allow transport beyond fragmentation. At a deep
level, the poems conclude that language itself brokers
transcendence through its very brokenness.
This study examines Tennyson's portrayals of the erotic and
creative impulses, reading the poet's ubiquitous lover-artists as
tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being
human, a condition of personal fragmentation and limited knowledge.
Ostensibly seeking to fulfill erotic wishes, construct utopias, or
create grand artistic works, Tennyson's characters engage in a
fundamentally spiritual quest, yearning to divine desire: to
eternalize the fulfilment of their deepest wishes. Freud revealed
how Victorians sublimated sexual desire into religious impulse.
This book demonstrates, however, the remarkable way in which
Tennyson's poems transact the opposing projection, transfiguring
spiritual desire into erotic art. Brilliantly negotiating a middle
ground between scientific skepticism and reactionary religiosity,
his vastly popular poems suggest that fulfilment of "the wish too
strong for words to name" lies in a sacramentality: only as means
do art and eros allow transport beyond fragmentation. At a deep
level, the poems conclude that language itself brokers
transcendence through its very brokenness.
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