Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson

Abstract

The poet as man of letters Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. - Tennyson's breath Eric Griffiths - Tennyson's philosophy : some lyric examples Timothy Peltason - The skipping muse : repetition and difference in two early poems of Tennyson Matthew Rowlinson - A blessing and a curse : the poetics of privacy in Tennyson's "The lady of Shalott" Joseph Chadwick - Personification in "Tithonus" Daniel A. Harris - Tennyson's Princess : one bride for seven brothers Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - The collapse of object and subject : In memoriam Isobel Armstrong - "Descend, and touch, and enter" : Tennyson's strange manner of address Christopher Craft - Maud and the doom of cultures Herbert F. Tucker - The female king : Tennyson's Arthurian apocalypse Elliot L. Gilbert - The contours of manliness and the nature of woman Marion Shaw - "The mortal limits of the self" : language and subjectivity Alan Sinfield.