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Exploring imagery, mood, and Tennyson’s place among modern writers
This inaugural lecture surveys how Tennyson’s poetry fits with late nineteenth‑century fiction and drama, and why his landscapes and moods matter to modern readers. It traces how imagery, rhythm, and perception shape meaning across the poet’s work and its companions in the era.
The author situates Tennyson within a broader literary conversation, comparing his approach to the sentiments and currents that moved writers like Rossetti, Ibsen, Zola, and Meredith. It notes both strengths and limits, highlighting how Tennyson’s vivid landscapes, dreamlike tones, and careful use of sound contribute to a distinctive poetic voice. The discussion also touches on Maud and In Memoriam as touchpoints for his handling of feeling, memory, and moral reflection, while acknowledging shifts in taste over time.What you’ll experience:
- A clear map of how imagery and mood function in Tennyson’s verse
- Connections between Tennyson and other major writers of his era
- Close looks at landscape language, dream life, and musical effect
- Considerations of how criticism reads his work in light of modern literature
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Excerpt from Tennyson: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the Arts Theatre of University College, Liverpool, November 1, 1901
The picture might be that of a Red Indian Chieftain, sitting wiselythrough the silent hours of the calumet. His few personal faults were such as might beseem a Chieftain. For the utterance of Carlyle's Tennyson, we had best look to Tennyson's prose, in his talk, maxim, and correspondence. That, certainly, is ever entirely natural, masculine, and well-cut. He uttered, declared his friend Fitzgerald, no adoring critic, 'by far the finest prose sayings of anyone.' The best of them concern the literature that came home to Tennyson; but there is greatness in others that are on record.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Tennyson: An Inaugural Lecture Given in the Arts Theatre of University College, Liverpool, November 1, 1901
Tennyson, of whose life we have all read, leaves a strong impression of natural force, to which his poetry bears less perfect witness. He lived in a time and a land needing the resistance of any artist who would not wish to resign his title and become afraid. He was a figure in our stable, immemorial, dignified English society: he was ever in a deep harmony with its ruling caste; a way of life which makes more surely for practice and high civic uses than for unimpeded poetry, and more for the contentment and accomplishment of the intelligence than for its free and daring, or even its disinterested, play. The last half century of his life was a phase of high formative value in English thought, but is already stamped in intellectual history with something of what the Germans call Halbheit; and this Tennyson expresses. He expresses the fluid theorizing which is also found in men so different as Maurice and Jowett, with their liberalism in one case frank and in the other canny, which helped to dissolve the passing order of ideas, while shrinking from perfect faith in speculation. Their work served education well. Thoroughly English figures, answerable for who shall say how many well-trained minds that were in turn to train others, they help, on retrospect, to intensify that sense of Halbheit, of which Tennyson, who stands near their group, remains the exponent to a far larger audience than theirs. Their battles were fought less on final principles than on the frontier-ground of this or that article of subscription, or in the effort to adjust new lights with doctrine, so that many minor heresies by which society was much stirred have now become options.
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