Alfred Tennyson Andrew Lang

By:

Lang, Andrew

Language: English Publication details: New Dehi Vandana Publications 2019Description: 191p. 22cmISBN:

9789383386734

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DDC classification:

821.8 LAN

Summary: When Alfred Tennyson's critical reputation began to be revived nearly fifty years ago, monographs on the poet often aimed to cover the whole arc of his long career. For the past few decades, however, this has been increasingly rare: critics have tended to focus on selected works or on portions of the oeuvre. But Anna Barton's fine study offers a narrative of Tennyson's poetic development from beginning to end, describing both his career and his careerism—his conscious desire to make a name for himself and then to live up to that name. Perhaps her chief claim is that this consciousness of his own celebrity, particularly after he became Poet Laureate in 1850, was not (as has often been assumed and asserted) detrimental to Tennyson's poetry. "It might be expected that the transformation of the poet's name into a material,

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Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Anna Centenary Library 4TH FLOOR, B WING	821.8 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		617505

When Alfred Tennyson's critical reputation began to be revived nearly fifty years ago, monographs on the poet often aimed to cover the whole arc of his long career. For the past few decades, however, this has been increasingly rare: critics have tended to focus on selected works or on portions of the oeuvre. But Anna Barton's fine study offers a narrative of Tennyson's poetic development from beginning to end, describing both his career and his careerism—his conscious desire to make a name for himself and then to live up to that name. Perhaps her chief claim is that this consciousness of his own celebrity, particularly after he became Poet Laureate in 1850, was not (as has often been assumed and asserted) detrimental to Tennyson's poetry. "It might be expected that the transformation of the poet's name into a material,

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