Alfred Tennyson

by Elaine Jordan

Book Overview

This book provides a valuable introduction for students and other readers of Tennyson's poetry and presents an account of its major themes and concerns. Elaine Jordan examines Tennyson's uneasy position as a writer of the male middle-class ascendancy and shows how his poetry reveals ambivalent attitudes towards manliness, war, and nineteenth-century scientific rationality. In his early Idylls she finds him experimenting with different political attitudes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521313376
• ISBN13: 9780521313377
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"