TY - GEN T1 - Domestic and heroic in Tennyson's poetry A1 - Hair, Donald S. LA - English PP - Toronto ; Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press YR - 1981 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1005843430 AB - Tennyson shared the assumptions of his age concerning the value of family life, and treated the domestic as the source of the heroic in both action and character. This book provides a critical examination of these major Victorian themes as they appear in Tennyson's poetry and demonstrates how the poet's assumptions illuminate his use of elegy, idyl, and epyllion and his treatment of romance. Professor Hair analyses In Memoriam, the English Idylls, The Princess, and Idyls of the King; he examines Tennyson's view of the family as the model of social order, a civilizing influence on the nation, and a place where the greater man, or hero, is nurtured; and he reveals how much of Tennyson's poetry explores the link between domestic and heroic. He also discusses the patterns into which these pervasive domestic concerns fall, with emphasis on the most significant: separation and reunions. The myth of Demeter and Persephone, the Biblical story of Ruth, and the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale are all versions of Tennyson's treatment of this pattern. The English Idylls and other idyls and epyllia are explored as varying combinations of romance, satire, tragedy, comedy, and irony, with a detailed analysis of The Princess, the most complex of these medleys. Idylls of the King, wherein the fate of Camelot rests on the marriage of Arthur and Guinevere, is treated as the fullest exploration of the link between domestic and heroic. OP - 251 CN - PR5592.F36 H34 1981eb SN - 9781487588762 SN - 1487588763 SN - 0802055303 SN - 9780802055309 SN - 9781487591250 KW - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, : Baron, : 1809-1892 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, : Baron, : 1809-1892 : Critique et interprétation. KW - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, : Baron, : 1809-1892 KW - Tennyson, Alfred : 1809-1892 KW - Tennyson, Alfred. KW - Families in literature. KW - Home in literature. KW - Heroes in literature. KW - Familles dans la littérature. KW - Foyer dans la littérature. KW - Héros dans la littérature. KW - POETRY : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - Families in literature KW - Heroes in literature KW - Home in literature KW - Heroismus KW - Idylle KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -