KATHY ALEXIS PSOMIADEScuriously, / The charm is broken utterly, / Draw near and fear not - This is I, /
The Lady of Shalott."
7 Raymond Williams, Culture and Society: 1780-1950 (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1983), 36.
8 Raymond Macdonald Alden, Alfred Tennyson: How to Know Him (Indiana-
polis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1917), 354.
9 John Heath-Stubbs, The Darkling Plain: A Study of the Later Fortunes of
Romanticism in English Poetry from George Darley to W.B. Yeats (London:
Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1950), 148.
10 Heath-Stubbs, The Darkling Plain, 99.
11 E.D.H. Johnson, The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic
Imagination in Tennyson, Browning and Arnold (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1952), 217.
12 Johnson, The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry, 9.
13 Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in
Modern Literary Tradition (New York: Random House, 1957), 27.
14 Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience, 35.
15 Alan Sinfield, Alfred Tennyson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), 8; further page
references appear in parentheses.
16 Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London:
Routledge, 1993), 15; further page references appear in parentheses.
17 Isobel Armstrong, "Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott': Victorian Mythography
and the Politics of Narcissism," in The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and
Mythology in the Nineteenth Century, ed. J. B. Bullen (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1989), 71.
18 Harold Bloom, Poetry and Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976), 144-45. F°r an extended
discussion of Bloom and Victorian poetry, see James R. Kincaid, "Antithetical
Criticism, Harold Bloom, and Victorian Poetry," Victorian Poetry 14 (1976),
365-82.
19 See especially Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art
and Literature, ed. Randal Johnson (New York: Columbia University Press,
I993)-
20 Andrew Elfenbein, Byron and the Victorians (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995), 6-7.
21 Elfenbein, Byron and the Victorians, 169-87.
22 Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry: An Anthology
for College Students (New York: Henry Holt, 1938), 33 4
23 Brooks and Warren, Understanding Poetry, 509.
24 Cleanth Brooks, The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947), 167.
25 Gerhard Joseph, Tennyson and the Text: The Weaver's Shuttle (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992), 104; further page references appear in
parentheses.
26 Geoffrey H. Hartman, Saving the Text: Literature/Derrida/Philosophy (Balti-
more, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), 97.
27 Hartman, Saving the Text, no.
28 Matthew Rowlinson, Tennyson's Fixations: Psychoanalysis and the Topics of
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