Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth
Uncovering Wordsworth’s influence on Tennyson
This book explores Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson’s borrowing of the earlier poet’s words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson’s poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.
Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson’s career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson’s poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.
Key Features
First book-length study of Tennyson’s poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson’s poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet

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Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth
Uncovering Wordsworth’s influence on Tennyson
This book explores Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson’s borrowing of the earlier poet’s words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson’s poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.
Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson’s career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson’s poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.
Key Features
First book-length study of Tennyson’s poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson’s poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet

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Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

by Jayne Thomas
Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth

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Uncovering Wordsworth’s influence on Tennyson
This book explores Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson’s borrowing of the earlier poet’s words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson’s poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised.
Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson’s career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson’s poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.
Key Features
First book-length study of Tennyson’s poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson’s poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson’s poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474436885
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 11/03/2020
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Jayne Thomas is a Postdoctoral Researcher, specialising in Romantic influences in Victorian poetry. She received her PhD from Cardiff Universityin 2014. Her article 'Tennyson’s “Tithonus” and the Revision of Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey"' appeared in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate in 2017. She has also published on the Anglo-Irish author George Moore, in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction

1. ‘"She has a lovely face"’: Tennyson and ‘The Lady of Shalott’2. ‘All experience is an arch’: Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ and the Revision of Wordsworth3. ‘The dead man touched me from the past’: Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Wordsworth4. Monodrama and Madness: Maud and the Shrieking of the Wainscot Mouse5. Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ and the Revision of Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’Conclusion: Crossing the Wordsworthian Bar

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Unusually sensitive readings of some of Tennyson's most important poems distinguish this fine book. Thomas shows how Tennyson defines himself both through and against Wordsworth. The relationship between the two poets is established as an exemplary instance of the ways in which Victorian poets negotiated with their Romantic precursors. 

University of Glasgow Richard Cronin

Unusually sensitive readings of some of Tennyson's most important poems distinguish this fine book. Thomas shows how Tennyson defines himself both through and against Wordsworth. The relationship between the two poets is established as an exemplary instance of the ways in which Victorian poets negotiated with their Romantic precursors. 

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