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Stateliest measures : Tennyson and the literature of Greece and Rome /

"Stateliest Measures, the first full-length study of Tennyson's thematic and metrical uses of classical material, examines the profoundly important role that his classical background played as he fashioned himself into a poet in the 1820s and 1830s, and as he defined himself as poet laurea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Markley, A. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the English Virgil
  • Tennyson's classicism in context : the Victorians and the ancient world
  • The building blocks of song : constructing the classical dramatic monologue
  • Et in Arcadia : transcending the classical elegy in In memoriam
  • Classical prosody and the 'Ocean roll of rhythm'
  • The trilogy on death : 'Ulysses, ' 'Tithonus, ' and 'Tiresias'
  • Old tales for a new day : Lucretius, Demeter, and Œnone's return.