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Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

writer of Idylls of the King, poet laureate in 1850

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Criticism about Lord Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Overview

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennyov.html

Contains a variety of information on Tennyson and his times. Included are a biography, links to full text works, and themes, structure, and genre in his work.

Contains: Pictures, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Full Bio

From: Victorian Web

Keywords: victorianism, poetry

 

The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold

http://www.victorianweb.org/books/alienvision/contents.html

Looks at the cultural influences on the imagy evoked in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold.

Contains: Criticism

Author: E. D. H. Johnson

From: The Victorian Web Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952

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Tennyson and Cholera

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/winter97/platizky.htm

This anaylsis of Tennyson writings looks at how, "In examining, however, thesurprisingly few references Tennyson makes to cholera in his collected writings, one discovers the poetÕs reaction most often to be detached and defensive rather thanempathetic or consolatory, as if he were trying to ward off the disease by emphasizing its otherness instead of identifying with its universality. "

Contains: Criticism

Author: Roger S. Platizky

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 4, Winter 1997

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Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/kincaid/contents.htm...

Book-length critical work that explores the uses of comedy and irony in the poems of Tennyson.

Contains: Criticism

Author: James R. Kincaid

From: The Victorian Web New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975

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The Tennysons

http://www.bartleby.com/223/index.html#2

This lengthy analysis of the authors' lives and work includes sections on "TennysonÕs early poems", "The Princess", "Idylls of the King", "Dramas and later poems and ballads", "Charles Tennyson" and "Frederick Tennyson."

Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Herbert J. C. Grierson

From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II

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Biographical sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Brief Biography

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html

This brief biography looks at Tennyson's personal life as well as his literary achievements.

Contains: Extensive Bio

Author: Glenn Everett

From: Victorian Web

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Tennyson's Life: A Timeline

http://CHARON.SFSU.EDU/TENNYSON/TENNCHRON.HTML

This chronology focuses on Tennyson's publishing history.

Contains: Pictures, Timeline

Author: Arthur Chandler

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Other sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson

Tennyson Bibliography

http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/bibliography.html

This very brief bibliography covers general biography and criticism of Tennyson as well as a few critical books on The Idylls of the King.

Contains: Bibliography

Author: Carol-An de Naissance

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