Stateliest Measures : Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markley, A. A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tennyson, Alfred.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892 > Critique et interpretation.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892 > Knowledge > Rome.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892 > Knowledge > Greece.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892 > Knowledge > Literature.
Klassische Philologie.
Literatur
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Literature.
English poetry > Classical influences.
Classicism.
Classical literature > Appreciation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Mythologie ancienne dans la litterature.
Classicisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Poesie anglaise > Influence ancienne.
Classical literature > Appreciation > England.
Classicism > England > History > 19th century.
Latein.
Griechisch.
Rome (Empire)
Greece.
England.
Rome > In literature.
Greece > In literature.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Oenone's return.

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