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by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Critical sites about Collected Poems of Tennyson

Canada and the Epilogue to the Idylls: “The Imperial Connection” in 1873

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/Summer98/devereux.htm

This analysis of Tennyson’s poem concludes that “‘To the Queen’ is thus certainly, as Brantlinger implies when he includes a part of this poem as the epigraph to Rule of Darkness, a banner poem heralding a new age of British imperialism; it is also a crucial articulation of the sentiment which increasingly after 1873 bound Tennyson to Victoria, and (English) Canada to England.”

Contains: Historical Context

Author: Cecily Devereux

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998

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Displacing Hallam�s Tomb in Tennyson�s In Memoriam

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/spring98/mansell.htm

This analysis of “In Memoriam” arguest that it “is above all an elegy.”

Author: Darrel Mansell

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 1, Spring 1998

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Interpretation and Rumor in Tennyson’s Merlin and Vivien

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/clcshow/harland.htm

This analysis of “Merlin and Vivien” examines Tennyson’s debt to Virgil and his treatment of the characters of Merlin and Vivien.

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Catherine R. Harland

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 1, Spring 1996

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Producing the “Far-Off Interest of Tears”: Tennyson, Freud, and theEconomics of Mourning

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/Summer98/joseph.htm

This analysis of “In Memoriam” concludes that “a poet as such, like Tennyson, is moreconsistently in touch with the ungrounded, recursively metaphorical nature of what he thinks and says. The poet knows that if he uses a given trope, it is one of many, a contingent thing that will soon give way . . . to another trope, as In Memoriam demonstrates in its accumulative complexity. “

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Gerhard Joseph

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998

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The “Valour of delicate women”: The Domestication of Political Relations in Tennyson�s Laureate Poetry

http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/Summer98/inboden.htm

This analysis of Tennyson’s poetry argues that “in a series of short, often occasional poems written throughout his career as laureate, Tennyson characterizes political relations as family relations�not from mere condescension (the white man�s burden, the noble savage/child), but both as a way to comprehend the Other of colonial peoples bymaking these peoples part of the Mother Queen�s domestic sphere, and as a way of making personal power into public power. “

Author: Robin l. Inboden

From: Victorian Poetry Volume 36, no. 2, Summer 1998

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