Tennyson's 'Epic Drama' - Hardcover

Smith, Elton Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761808752 ISBN 13: 9780761808756

Publisher: University Press Of America, 1997

A commonplace of literary criticism has been the pejorative judgment of 19th century drama. Yet at the height of his fame as Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson devoted eight valuable years and all his rich gifts to seven plays that he considered to be the best work he had done, and, like the Idylls of the King, to form an epical history of England. This book examines the plays of Tennyson and argues that current criticism that neglects, ignores, or denigrates Tennyson's drama does a great disservice to the importance of the poet's dramatic works.

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About the Author:

Elton Edward Smith is Distinguished Professor of British Literature and Bible at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Review:

...indicates that close attention to these plays illuminates much about Tennyson's politics, not least his sharp 'social criticism of the shopkeeping mentality.'> (Nineteenth-Century Literature)

...indicates that close attention to these plays illuminates much about Tennyson's politics, not least his sharp 'social criticism of the shopkeeping mentality.' (Nineteenth-Century Literature)

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