Alfred, Lord Tennyson  Victorian

Info

- sought anchorage for himself and his age in directions marked out by Carlyle (Horton 613)

- strove to be poet-mystic, modeling himself on Carlyle's "hero as Poet" (613)

- exquisite ear for sounds of language; gift for which his poetry is especially noted today (614)

- synthesis of Christian and Carlylean doctrine satisfied only those who understood it least (615)

- yields insights into the Victorian mind (615)

Works

- In Memoriam - most ambitious work

- "The Lady of Shalott"

- Idylls of the King

- "The Poet"

- Morte d'Arthur

- "Ulysses"

- "Crossing the Bar" - images death as return to sea; keeping with evolutionary theory (614-635)

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.