Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays

by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Published to mark the bicentenary of Alfred Tennyson's birth, these essays offer an important revaluation of his achievement and its lasting importance. After several years in which the temper of criticism has been largely political (and often hostile towards Tennyson in particular) a number of influential recent accounts of Victorian poetry have rediscovered the virtues of a closer style of reading and the benefits and pleasures of an approach that,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557136
• ISBN13: 9780199557134
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"