Alfred Tennyson

This second lecture takes as its epigraph the invocation in Tennyson 's The Princess of men and women working side by side in council, hearth, and the tangled business of the world. It enlarges...

The poems take up various late-Victorian feminist issues, and their topicality and title seem to make them an implicit rebuttal of Tennyson 's nostalgic Idylls of the King. In A Woman's Ethics (perhaps an...

Cornford dedicated the book to the memory of her old friend and mentor,Sir Edward Marsh . She edited the book's contents, collecting, and in some cases revising, all the poems I wish to...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

MB recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson 's Idylls of the King, Wilde 's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott , and Richardson

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...

LSC was apparently inspired by the same Italian poem (Cento Novelle Antiche) that inspired Tennyson 's The Lady of Shalott three years later. Scholar Roger Simpson suggests that, at the very least,...

Edmund, narrator of this novel, is another old man: cautious, hierarchically minded, yet remembering his past as a young radical. He fell in love with Clarice de Vere —whose name recalls Tennyson 's Lady Clara...

The volume includes the titular long poem Stella, about the doomed love between an Italian patriot and the daughter of a nobleman, which critic Francis O'Gorman describes as echoing Tennyson'sMaud (published twelve years...

The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons and Edmund Gosse , and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

Verona's title poem embeds a number of lyrics within its novelistic structure. Tennyson 's influence is particularly apparent in Serenada, which opens: Now folds the cistus, now / The lemon-blossom sleeps (echoing...

SOJ had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter and Louise Guiney , and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe (whose funeral she and Annie Fields attended in...

GJ 's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan , who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover ; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold ; and...

The success of AO 's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson , and Swinburne . She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth .