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Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-Of-War

Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-Of-War

Albright, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0813937868
ISBN13: 9780813937861
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: May 24 2015
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Albright contends that Tennyson's aesthetic goals were... in conflict and that his poetry attempts to unite two incompatible poetics, '' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an earthly muse suspicious of the idealizations and abstractions held dear by the first. The result is a poetry of myopia and astigmatism. With its neatly pursued argument and jargon-free text, this study offers many insights, though a readership fluently conversant with the Tennysonian opus (not just the major poems) is assumed. This is a good beginning for the Virginia Victorian Studies'' series, which will deal in literary topics from 1830 to 1914. Presumably the series, like this book, will be aimed at an audience at the advanced undergraduate level or above. The book is recommended, accordingly.

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