Many Glancing Colours: An Essay in Reading Tennyson, 1809-1850University of Toronto Press, 1988 - 287 pages McKay (English, Brock U.) offers an extensive, closely analytical study of Tennyson's maturing poetry to In Memoriam. It turns on his growing mastery of a poetry of interpretive allusion and analogy focused by his recognition that meaning issues from suffering as love, beyond consciousness or statement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
A Prologue | 3 |
A Certain Order of Ideas | 39 |
We Cannot Live in Art | 71 |
Copyright | |
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The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry Timothy J. Lovelace No preview available - 2003 |