Tennyson and the Text
Subtitle: The Weaver's Shuttle
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521019699
Subjects: Works by individual poets: 19th century; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; Poetry; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, --Baron, --1809-18; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron,--1809-1892--Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: By now we have passed well beyond what Harold Nicolson called his "scavenger age," those post-Stracheyan days when critics felt obliged to indict the shallowness and complacency of Victorian thought in general, and to greet "with the guffaw of the critical humorist" so representative a sage of the period as Tennyson in particular (Nicolson 1923, 128).