Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

Jayne Thomas

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

Jayne Thomas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436892

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Uncovering Wordsworth’s influence on Tennyson

This book explores Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson’s borrowing of the earlier poet’s words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson’s poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.

Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson’s career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson’s poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.

Key Features

First book-length study of Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth
By focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth
Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson’s poetry
Recalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 ‘“She has a lovely face”’: Tennyson and ‘The Lady of Shalott’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter 2 ‘All experience is an arch’:1 Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ and the Revision of Wordsw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 3 ‘The dead man touched me from the past’: Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Wordsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 4 Monodrama and Madness: Maud and the Shrieking of the Wainscot Mouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 5 Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ and the Revision of Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Conclusion: Crossing the Wordsworthian Bar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474436892