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- Title: Tennyson (Guide to the Year's Work) (Alfred Tennyson)
- Author : Victorian Poetry
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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2009 marked the bicentenary of Tennyson's birth and elicited an outpouring of work: over 60 essays and 7 books with one or more Tennyson chapters. Most often this work, much of it excellent, revolves around intertextuality, culture, and/or media--Tennyson seen in relation to other formations rather than as an entity unto himself. Since 43 of the essays were gathered into three bicentenary collections, I provide an overview of these before exploring strands of Tennyson scholarship in detail. The Tennyson Society Publications Board suggested the focus of the 22 essays in Tennyson Among the Poets (Oxford Univ. Press, hereafter TP), ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Seamus Perry; and the Tennyson Society also helped support the beautifully illustrated Tennyson Transformed: Alfred Lord Tennyson and Visual Culture, ed. Jim Cheshire (Lund Humphries, hereafter TT), a collection of 6 essays accompanying an exhibition catalogue. If the books have unifying preoccupations, the 15 essays in "Tennyson at Two Hundred," the VP special issue guest-edited by Herbert Tucker (47, no. 1: 1-347, hereafter "TTH"), range widely as befits a scholarly journal, though new historicism and culturally inflected formal analysis are recurring frames of reference. Christopher Ricks and Herbert Tucker contribute forewords to the collections (Ricks to both books), but alas no full-length essays, and they are missed. Still, their brief comments are worth seeking out, Ricks for his contention that even irreverent parodies testify to Tennyson's "unique unignorability" (TP, p. vii), Tucker for his nuanced comparison of the early "posy" for Rosa Baring ("TTH," p. 3) with "Roses on the Terrace" as he briefly considers Tennyson's anniversary poems. The bicentenary editors have very artfully organized their volumes, especially the longer collections, so that juxtaposed essays, like much of Tennyson's poetry, proceeds dialectically and with rich results. The year's work tout ensemble in fact testifies to the maturity of Tennyson studies and its extraordinary vitality.