Tennyson's Poetics of Melancholy and the Imperial Imagination
@article{Riede2000TennysonsPO, title={Tennyson's Poetics of Melancholy and the Imperial Imagination}, author={D. Riede}, journal={SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900}, year={2000}, volume={40}, pages={659 - 678} }
Ever since Arthur Hallam's early review of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems, critics have recognized that Tennyson's early work attempts to establish a kind of poetic authority, and that its characteristic power is grounded in melancholy. The best recent criticism, by Herbert Tucker and Isobel Armstrong, argues that Tennyson was especially eager to establish "poetic authority as such" as an "urgent project [in the] context of a society which seemed on the verge of revolution and lawlessness. 1 It… CONTINUE READING
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