Alfred Tennyson: A Companion

by Laurence W. Mazzeno

Overview

Alfred Tennyson was a poet all his life, writing more than a thousand works in virtually every poetic genre. Considered by his Victorian contemporaries the pre-eminent poet of the age, he has become a canonical figure who is widely read and studied today. Consequently, his poems appear on the syllabi of both survey courses in Victorian literature as well as upper-division and graduate-level topics courses that cover Victorian studies or address subjects such as environmental studies, religion, elegiac poetry, and Arthurian literature.

  This companion makes Tennyson's poetry accessible to contemporary readers by identifying some of the formal elements of the poems, highlighting their relevance to Tennyson's Victorian contemporaries, and explaining their enduring appeal and value. Entries in the companion, organized alphabetically, provide essential details about Tennyson's most anthologized poems, offer suggestions for reading and interpretation, and elucidate unfamiliar historical and literary allusions. Additional entries, a biography of Tennyson, and a selected bibliography of recent criticism offer information about the people, places, events, and issues that influenced Tennyson or were important to him and his contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476640846
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	08/31/2020
Series:	McFarland Companions to 19th Century Literature
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Laurence W. Mazzeno, president emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania, is the author or editor of 20+ books and more than 300 articles and reviews on literature and history. He lives in Arvada, Colorado. Sue Norton, a lecturer of English at the Technological University Dublin since 1999, previously taught in University College Dublin, University College Cork and New Jersey City University.
Laurence W. Mazzeno, president emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania, is the author or editor of 20+ books and more than 300 articles and reviews on literature and history. He lives in Arvada, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Tennyson, ­­Preeminent Victorian Poet and Innovator
Alfred Tennyson: A Brief Biography
Chronological List of Tennyson’s Major Publications
Alfred Tennyson: A Companion
Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Criticism
Works Cited
Index

Editorial Reviews

Mazzeno's book offers what may come to be seen as an indispensable guide to the poet's life, work and thought, a guide quite evidently based upon a Herculean compass of reading and research. This is a volume which can be warmly recommended reading for all Tennysonians, and it will surely now become a standard work of reference on the poet and his oeuvre.”—Tennyson Research Bulletin

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