Poetry for Students

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Sources

Eliot, T. S., “In Memoriam,” in Tennyson: A Collection of

Critical Essays, edited by Elizabeth Francis, Prentice-Hall,

1980, p. 133, originally published in Selected Essays, Faber

and Faber, 1932.

Marshall, George O., Jr., “Tennyson the Teacher,” in A Ten-

nyson Handbook, Twayne Publishers, 1963, p. 122.

Young, G. M., “The Age of Tennyson,” in Critical Essays

on the Poetry of Tennyson, edited by John Killham, Barnes

& Noble, 1960, p. 25.

Further Reading

Campbell, Matthew, Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry,

Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Campbell devotes an entire chapter to In Memoriam,

putting its structure into context with the works of

Tennyson’s contemporaries.

Kingsley, C., “On In Memoriam(1850) and Earlier Works,”

inTennyson: The Critical Heritage, edited by John D. Jump,

Barnes & Noble, 1967, pp. 172–85.

Reading a review of Tennyson’s long poem from the

time period when it was published gives a sense of

what a departure the poem was from Tennyson’s

usual style and how uncertain Tennyson’s reputation

was before In Memoriamsealed his fame.

Tennyson, Charles, and Christine Falls, Alfred Tennyson: An

Annotated Bibliography, University of Georgia Press, 1967.

This book-length bibliography is several decades old,

but it is useful as a reference to many studies of the

poet published in the nineteenth and early twentieth

centuries.

Turner, Paul, Tennyson, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

What distinguishes this work from many other book-

length analyses of Tennyson is the way that Turner

presents his thoroughly researched background in-

formation in a style that is easy to follow.

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