Tennyson's poems
Subtitle: new textual parallels
By: R.H. Winnick
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781783746613; 9781783746620
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: The author identifies more than a thousand previously unknown instances in which Tennyson phrases of two or three to as many as several words are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands - discoveries aided by the proliferation of digitized texts and the related development of powerful search tools over the three decades since the most recent major edition of Tennyson's poems was published. Each of these instances may be deemed an allusion (meant to be recognized as such and pointing, for definable purposes, to a particular antecedent text), an echo (Conscious or note, deliberate or note, meant to be noticed or not, meaningful or not), or merely accidental. Unless accidental, the author writes, these new textual parallels significantly expand our knowledge both of Tennyson's reading and of his thematic intentions and artistic technique. coupled with the thousand-plus textual parallels previously reported by Christopher Ricks and other scholars, he says, they suggest that a fundamental and lifelong aspect of Tennyson's art was his habit of echoing any work, ancient or modern, which had the potential to enhance the resonance or deepened the meaning of his poems. The new textual parallels the author has identified point most often to the King James Bible and to such canonical authors as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, pope, Thomson, Cowper, Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth. But they also point to many authors rarely if ever previously cited in Tennyson editions and studies, including Richard Blackmore, Isaac Watts, James Macpherson, Erasmus Darwin, John Ogilvie, Anna Laetitia Barbault, Thomas Moore, James Montgomery, John Wilson, and - with surprising frequency - Felicia Hemans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Three translations of Horace; title: Translation of Claudian's "Rape of Proserpine"; title: The devil and the lady; title: Armageddon; title: The coach of death, a fragment; title: Memory [Memory! dear enchanter!]; title: Remorse; title: The Dell of E; title: -; title: Anthony and Cleopatra; title: "Did not thy roseate lips outvie"; title: On sublimity; title: Time: an ode; title: The walk at midnight; title: "Oh! ye wild winds, that roar and rave"; title: Babylon; title: Love [Almighty Love!]; title: Exhortation to the Greeks; title: "Come hither, canst thou tell me if this skull"; title: The dying man to his friend; title: "The musky air was mute"; title: The outcast; title: The invasion of Russia by Napoleon Buonaparte; title: Playfellow winds; title: Home; title: "Among some nations fate hath placed too far"; title: To Poesy [O God, make this age great]; title: The lark; title: Timbuctoo; title: Mariana; title: Madeline; title: Supposed confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind; title: The burial of love; title: Recollections of the Arabian Nights; title: Ode to memory; title: Adeline; title: A character; title: The poet; title: Hero to Leander; title: The grasshopper; title: Chorus, in an unpublished drama, written very early; title: To a lady sleeping; title: Sonnet [Could I outwear my present state of woe]; title: Sonnet [Though night hath climbed her peak of highest noon]; title: Sonnet [Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good]; title: Sonnet [The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain]; title: Amy; title: Memory [Ay me!]; title: Ode: O Bosky Brook; title: Perdidi Diem; title: Sense and conscience; title: "In deep and solemn dreams"; title: Lines on Cambridge of 1830; title: A fragment [Where is the Giant of the Sun]; title: "O wake ere I grow jealous of sweet Sleep"; title: "The constant spirit of the world exults"; title: Sonnet [When that rank heat of evil's tropic day]; title: Sonnet[ There are three things which fill my heart with sighs]; title: The lover's tale; title: "My life is full of weary days"; title: "If I were loved, as I desire to be"; title: The Lady of Shalott; title: Mariana in the South; title: Eleänore; title: The miller's daughter; title: Fatima; title: Œnone; title: To; title: -. With the following poem [The palace of art]; title: The palace of art; title: The Hesperides; title: The lotos-eaters; title: Rosalind; title: "My Rosalind, my Rosalind"; title: A dream of fair women; title: Song [Who can say]; title: Margaret; title: Kate; title: To; title: [As when with downcast eyes]; title: Sonnet [Alas! how weary are my human eyes]; title: "Pierced through with knotted thorns of barren pain"; title: The ruined kiln; title: The progress of spring; title: "Hail Briton!"; title: Early spring [1833]; title: The ante-chamber; title: The gardener's daughter; or, the pictures; title: The two voices; title: St. Simeon Stylites; title: St Agnes' eve; title: "Hark! the dogs howl!"; title: Whispers; title: On a mourner; title: Ulysses; title: Tithon; title: Tiresias; title: Semele; title: Youth; title: The epic [Morte d'Arthur]; title: "Oh! that 'twere possible"; title: "Fair is that cottage in its place"; title: "I loving Freedom for herself"; title: The blackbird; title: The day-dream; title: Lady Clara Vere de Vere; title: Sonnet [Ah, fade not yet from out o the green arcades]; title: To Rosa; title: Three sonnets to a coquette; title: Sonnet [How thought you that this thing could captivate?]; title: The voyage; title: The flight; title: "The tenth of April! is it not?"; title: A farewell; title: Locksley Hall; title: Edwin Morris or, the lake; title: The golden year; title: "Wherefore, in these dark ages of the press"; title: The vision of sin; title: Love and duty; title: The wanderer; title: The princess, a medley; title: To; title: , after reading a life and letters; title: The losing of the child; title: The sailor boy; title: In memoriam A.H.H.; title: The the Vicar of Shiplake; title: To the queen; title: "Little bosom not yet cold"; title: To E.L., on his travels in Greece; title: The third of February, 1852; title: Hands all around! [1852]; title: Suggested by reading an article in a newspaper; title: Will; title: The daisy; title: To the Rev. F.D. Maurice; title: The brook; title: Maud, a monodrama; title: The letters; title: Tithonus; title: Ode sung at the opening of the international exhibition; title: Enoch Arden; title: Alymer's field 1793; title: A dedication; title: The higher pantheism; title: Lucretius; title: To the Rev. W.h. Brookfield; title: Prefatory sonnet to the "nineteenth century"; title: Prefatory poem to my brother's sonnets; title: De profundis; title: Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham; title: Prologue to General Hamley [The charge of the Heavy Brigade]; title: Epilogue [The charge of the Heavy Brigade]; title: To Virgil; title: The throstle; title: To E. FitzGerald; title: Poets and their bibliographies; title: The dead prophet; title: Freedom; title: The fleet; title: Bastness; title: The ancient sage; title: Locksley Hall sixty years after; title: Demeter and Persephone; title: Happy, the leper's bride; title: To Mary Boyle; title: Far; title: - far; title: - away; title: To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava; title: Merlin and the gleam; title: The death of Œnone; title: St. Telemachus; title: Kapiolani; title: Crossing the bar. Idylls of the king : The coming of Arthur; title: Gareth and Lynette; title: The marriage of Geraint; title: Geraint and Enid; title: Balin and Balan; title: Merlin and Vivien; title: Lancelot and Elaine; title: The Holy Grail; title: Pelleas and Ettarre; title: The last tournament; title: Guinevere; title: The passing of Arthur. Alphabetical index of Tennyson poems discussed; title: Index of antecedent writers and works discussed.