EBOOK Tennyson Among the Poets:Bicentenary Essays

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, without at all ignoring socialand        cultural contexts, approaches them through a primary alertness to textual detail and        literary history. This volume, including entirely commissioned work by a wide range        of critics and scholars from across the profession in both Britain and North        America, seeks to bring such forms of attention tobear on the immense variety of        Tennyson's career by exploring the complex and multiple connections between Tennyson        and other writers - his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his successors.          Collectively, the essays describe an intricate network of affiliation and        indebtedness, resistance and reconciliation. They provide a unique assessment of        Tennyson's origins, work, and imaginative legacy as he enters upon his third        century.