Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-Of-War

by Daniel Albright

Book Overview

Albright contends that Tennyson's "aesthetic goals were... in conflict" and that his poetry attempts to "unite two incompatible poetics, '' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an earthly muse suspicious of the idealizations and abstractions held dear by the first. The result is a poetry of "myopia and astigmatism." With its neatly pursued argument and jargon-free text, this study offers many insights, though a readership fluently conversant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813937868
• ISBN13: 9780813937861
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher