Tennyson

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley (Harvard). In Memoriam and Maud are central texts but many other poems are discussed - lyrics, dramatic monologues, narratives, ballads - and such recurrent topics as loss, the numinous, and distance in space and time. The poems are related to their intellectual context and to other poets from Wordsworth to Edward FitzGerald.

Foreword; P. Collins - Notes on Contributors - Tennyson, Coleridge and The Cambridge Apostles; J. Beer - Tennyson's Idle Tears; E. Griffiths - Tennyson: the Lyric in the Distance; J. H. Buckley - The Archetype that Waits: The Lover's Tale, In Memoriam and Maud; A. Day - Tennyson in the 1850s: from Geology to Pathology: In Memorian (1850) to Maud (1855); I. Armstrong - Larger Hopes and the New Hedonism: Tennyson and FitzGerald; N. Page - Tennyson and Victorian Balladry; W. W. Robson - Index