Tennyson Among the Poets
Bicentenary Essays
Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations
Prefatory Note, Christopher Ricks
1. Tennyson's Dying Fall, Peter McDonald
2. Tennyson's Retrospective View, Dinah Birch
3. Tennyson's Limitations, Christopher Decker
4. Tennyson's Grotesque, Aidan Day
5. Tennyson, Browning, Virgil, Daniel Karlin
6. Tennyson and the Voices of Ovid's Heroines, A. A. Markley
7. On lines and grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson, Eric Griffiths
8. Epic Sensibilities: 'Old Man' Milton and the Making of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, N. K. Sugimura
9. The Wheels of Being: Tennyson and Shelley, Michael O'Neill
10. 'Brother-poets': Tennyson and Browning, Donald S. Hair
11. Friendship, Poetry, and Insurrection: The Kemble Letters, Marion Shaw
12. Tennyson's Humour, Matthew Bevis
13. Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense, Richard Cronin
14. 'Men, my borther, men the workers': Tennyson and the Victorian Working-CLass Poet, Kirstie Blair
15. 'Frater, ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne, Linda K. Hughes
16. After Tennyson: the Presence of the Poet, 1892-1918, Samantha Matthews
17. Tennyson, by Ear, Angela Leighton
18. Hardy's Tennyson, Helen Small
19. T. S. Eliot and Tennyson, John Morton
20. Tennyson and Auden, John Fuller
21. Betjemen's Tennyson, Seamus Perry
Index