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Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892)
Nationality: British | Periods: British: 19th Century |
writer of Idylls of the King, poet laureate in 1850
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Criticism about Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Overview
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennyov.html
- Contains a variety of information on Tennyson and his times. Included are a biography, links to full text works, and themes, structure, and genre in his work.
- Contains: Pictures, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Full Bio
- From: Victorian Web
- Keywords: victorianism, poetry
- The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold
- http://www.victorianweb.org/books/alienvision/contents.html
- Looks at the cultural influences on the imagy evoked in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold.
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: E. D. H. Johnson
- From: The Victorian Web Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952
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- Tennyson and Cholera
- http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/winter97/platizky.htm
- This anaylsis of Tennyson writings looks at how, “In examining, however, thesurprisingly few references Tennyson makes to cholera in his collected writings, one discovers the poet�s reaction most often to be detached and defensive rather thanempathetic or consolatory, as if he were trying to ward off the disease by emphasizing its otherness instead of identifying with its universality. “
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Roger S. Platizky
- From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 4, Winter 1997
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- Tennyson’s Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/kincaid/contents.htm…
- Book-length critical work that explores the uses of comedy and irony in the poems of Tennyson.
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: James R. Kincaid
- From: The Victorian Web New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975
- Keywords:
- The Tennysons
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#2
- This lengthy analysis of the authors’ lives and work includes sections on “Tennyson�s early poems”, “The Princess”, “Idylls of the King”, “Dramas and later poems and ballads”, ”Charles Tennyson” and “Frederick Tennyson.”
- Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography
- Author: Herbert J. C. Grierson
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II
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Biographical sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Brief Biography
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html
- This brief biography looks at Tennyson’s personal life as well as his literary achievements.
- Contains: Extensive Bio
- Author: Glenn Everett
- From: Victorian Web
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- Tennyson’s Life: A Timeline
- http://CHARON.SFSU.EDU/TENNYSON/TENNCHRON.HTML
- This chronology focuses on Tennyson’s publishing history.
- Contains: Pictures, Timeline
- Author: Arthur Chandler
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Other sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Tennyson Bibliography
- http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/bibliography.html
- This very brief bibliography covers general biography and criticism of Tennyson as well as a few critical books on The Idylls of the King.
- Contains: Bibliography
- Author: Carol-An de Naissance
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