Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

A selective bibliography of 15 active links for Alfred Lord Tennyson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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Literary Criticism

Bidney, Martin. "Nostalgic narcissism in comic and tragic perspectives: Elizabeth Bowen's two fictional reworkings of a Tennyson lyric." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1996

Brunner, Larry. "I Sit as God": Aestheticism and Repentance in Tennyson's "The Palace of Art", Renascence, Fall 2003

Devereux, Cecily. "Canada and the Epilogue to the Idylls: 'The Imperial Connection' in 1873." Devereux examines Tennyson's attitude towards British Imperialism in Canada in the conclusion of Idylls of the King. Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998 (removed)

Gray, Erik. "'Out of me, out of me!': Andrea, Ulysses, and Victorian Revisions of Egotistical Lyric," Gray looks at Victorian responses to the problem of the lyric "I," focusing on Browning's Andrea Del Sarto and Tennyson's Ulysses. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 1998 (removed)

Harland, Catherine R. "Interpretation and Rumor in Tennyson's Merlin and Vivien." Harland contends that Merlin and Vivien embody conflicting aspects of Tennyson's poetic identity and the problematic relationship of language and gender. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996(removed)

Hilton, Nelson. A Freudian discussion of Alfred Tennyson from Nelson Hilton's Lexis Complexes

Inboden, Robin. "The 'Valour of delicate women': The Domestication of Political Relations in Tennyson's Laureate Poetry." On Tennyson's attitudes about gender in his later poetry. Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998 (removed)

Joseph, Gerhard. "Producing the 'Far-Off Interest of Tears': Tennyson, Freud, and the Economics of Mourning." On In Memoriam. Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998 (removed)

Levi, Peter. A review of Levi's Tennyson. Reviewed in Contemporary Review, June, 1993 by Abel, Betty

Mansell, Darrel. "Displacing Hallam's Tomb in Tennyson's In Memoriam." Mansell examines why Tennyson made errors of fact about Arthur Henry Hallam's death. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 36, no. 1, Spring 1998 (removed)

McSweeney, Kerry. "Performing 'The Solitary Reaper' and 'Tears, Idle Tears.' - interpretive versus aesthetic literary criticism." Criticism, Spring, 1996

Shaw, Marion. A substantial introduction to Alfred Lord Tennyson, from the Literary Encyclopedia


Introductory, Overview, Unsigned Material

George Landow's Victorian Web has essays on Tennyson's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background

"Victorian Seedlings of the Twentieth Century." Overview of Victorian cultural and literary history, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute (removed)

Older criticism of Tennyson's major and minor works and a biography, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).

A biography of Alfred Lord Tennyson from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

A brief introduction to Tennyson from the University of Guelph


Internet Texts, Bibliography, Web Sites

"Victorianism." Essays topics include Victorianism as a Fusion of Neoclassical and Romantic Ideas; The Complex Realities of Victorianism; Main Currents in Victorian Intellectual History; The fundamental conflicts of Victorian poetry; Density and Elaborate Interconnectedness of High and Late Victorian culture; The Difficulties of Victorian Poetry - Browning, Hopkins, Swinburne, Tennyson; Victorian Doubt and Victorian Architecture; Victorian taste; Victorian Design; Race in Thought and Science; Victorian Earnestness; The Seaside in the Victorian Literary Imagination; Tennyson and Victorianism; The Victorian Gentleman; Crisis of Organized Religion; Queen Victoria. From George Landow's Victorian Web

Morton, Peter. "Darwinism and the Victorian Literary Imagination: A Bibliography." An extensive, partly annotated bibliography (removed from http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/Victorians/DarwinLitBiblio.htm)

Jackson, Lee. "A Dictionary of Victorian London." Victorian social history through a "dictionary" of Victorian institutions

"Monuments and Dust," a project by an international group of scholars who are creating a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London/

For a list of Tennyson's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, search engine that provides links to full texts on the internet

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies


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