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Tag: Tennyson

227. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

The Victorians, who were much taken with “progress,” were also, unsurprisingly, devoted to imagining its opposite: being left behind. In … More

decorum, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry

216. (Marcel Proust)

In the sixth volume of Recherche, Proust approaches Tennyson: the section of The Fugitive entitled “Grieving and Forgetting” is an … More

elegy, Proust, Tennyson

195. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

One story of Romanticism (mostly true, however simplified) goes: some poets from 1790s onwards find their freedom in their capacity … More

Kant, Philosophy and Poetry, Romanticism, Sebastian Rödl, Tennyson

127. (George Eliot)

This post will open with George Eliot and then drift, possibly to return. For a starting point, consider one of … More

Dickens, George Eliot, nineteenth-century literature, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, waste, Weber, Wordsworth

111. (John Keats)

On either side of John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” sit Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence” and Tennyson’s “Vision of … More

John Keats, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Tennyson, waste, Wordsworth

77. (R.H. Hutton)

One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More

Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Julia Wedgwood, Literary Criticism, Matthew Arnold, R.H. Hutton, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, Victorian Poetry, Victorians

72. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Tennyson loved Byron first; the story, propagated by Tennyson’s laureate self, of the young Alfred sobbing at the great poet’s … More

Byron, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry

40. (Henry James)

Henry James’ critical perception of others didn’t depend on his seeing himself in their words; but he might have been … More

Conan Doyle, Drama, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Kipling, Prose, Realist Novel, Stevenson, Tennyson

34. (Robert Browning)

Apt that an Italian would assist with placing Browning plain before the eyes. Franco Moretti (once again), but this time … More

Ezra Pound, Franco Moretti, Prose, Realism, Robert Browning, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry

32. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

A short phrase binds an entire ream of Tennyson criticism: “the art of the penultimate.” That Tennyson’s art looks forward … More

Bildungsroman, Byron, Christopher Ricks, Fiction, Franco Moretti, Novel, Poetry, Tennyson, Victorian Poetry, Wordsworth

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