Alfred Tennyson : the critical legacy /

Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Legacy' explores the critics' reaction to the work of the nineteenth-century English poet most closely associated with the Victorian era. Perhaps more than any other Victorian poet, Tennyson's reputation has waxed and waned in the century since his death....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzeno, Laurence W.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House 2004.
Series:Studies in English and American literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered). Literary criticism in perspective.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81gxz
Table of Contents:
  • Tennyson among his contemporaries : 1827-1892
  • A mixed legacy : 1892-1916
  • Criticism pro and con : 1916-1959
  • The Tennyson revival : 1960-1969
  • The height of critical acclaim : 1970-1980
  • Tennyson among the poststructuralists : 1981-1989
  • Tennyson fin-de-siècle : 1990-2000
  • A twenty-first century prospectus.