decision-makers into the
Tennysonian wilderness Beatson LJ warned
This shows how the peculiarly
Tennysonian form of the "elegy before death" works; the future acquires, through its co association with the present, some attributes of the past.
If someone comes along and says 'Oh, there's a line reminding me of Tennyson', one gets into a bit of a flap and one examines the whole poem, whether there's some sort of
Tennysonian influence or Rod McKuen influence and ruthlessly excises it.
In the dome of Lincoln Central Library lies the Tennyson Research Centre, a treasure trove of all things
Tennysonian. Tennyson's library lines the room alongside the libraries of his father, son and brother.
Nobody could deny the
Tennysonian nature "red in tooth and claw" But if there was an underlying design to history, the unmitigated misery of the animal world could be recuperated in some overarching utopia of progress, improvement, or natural harmony, much as the Christian myth recuperates the suffering of the fallen humanity through the notion of the divine providence.
of Lincoln) and five other UK scholars of Tennyson or this era present additional essays accompanying the featured art reproductions on such
Tennysonian themes as the Arthurian legend, and high culture as a positive moral force.
(9) This may be a characteristically
Tennysonian gesture: see Herbert E Tucker, Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (Harvard U.
While our 19th century literary folk elevated Longfellow, who made a mellifluous sound that was mostly
Tennysonian, the genius resided in Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
[Larkin's] vulnerability to desire and hope are transmitted in the
Tennysonian cadence of that last line and a half ["wedge-shadowed gardens lie / Under a cavernous, a wind-picked sky"] but suddenly the delved brow tightens--"There's something laughable about this"--only to be tempted again by a dream of fullness, this time in the symbolist transports of language itself--"O wolves of memory, immensements!" But, of course, he finally comes out with a definite, end-stopped "No.
In "Archaism, Nostalgia, and
Tennysonian War," Andrew Lynch finds parallels between Tolkien's and Tennyson's view of warfare and supplies the phrase which might offer the best descriptor of much within this collection: "a postmedieval, romantic mindset" (80).
(19) For further
Tennysonian allusions to Horace, see Mustard 1904.
But Perry argues convincingly that memory and refrain are also central
Tennysonian strengths, and part of his instinctive and distinctive imaginative conservatism.
"Morpho Eugenia uses its
Tennysonian blend of sensuousness and
He makes a previous Laureate, John Betjeman, who suffered much mockery about his Princess Anne's wedding poem, seem positively
Tennysonian, even on an off day.
