...Paull F. Baum Alfred Tennyson . By Tennyson Charles . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . Pp. xv , 579 . $7.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 BOOKS Alfred Tennyson. By Charles Tennyson. New York: The Macmil­ lan Company, 1949. Pp. xv, 579. $7.50...

...Clyde de L. Ryals Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart . By Martin Robert Bernard . Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. xii , 643 . $29.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 485 Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. By Robert...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Alfred Tennyson: A Victorian Romance Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas I The Victorian age, whose idols for a generation or more have suffered so grievously at the hands of the inconoclasts, is finding again its champions...

...Roy P. Basler TENNYSON THE PSYCHOLOGIST ROY P. BASLER A LTHOUGH CRITICS have generally agreed that Tennyson £V. is a supreme master of lyrical finesse, many have expressed grave doubts concerning his intellectual capacity and penetration. Yet, more often than not, aspersions on the quality...

...Ward Hellstrom The Poetry of Tennyson . By Culler A. Dwight . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1977 , Pp. x , 276 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 531 More Pricks than Kicks. In a chapter on Painting/Music, he offers one...

...P. F. Baum Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet . By Buckley Jerome Hamilton . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1960 . Pp. xii , 298 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 349 than the earlier ones, for his best days as a poet...

...Donald Smalley The Two Voices: A Tennyson Study . By Smith Elton Edward . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1964 . Pp. ix , 217 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 576 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Two Voices: A Tennyson Study. By Elton Edward...

...Samuel C. Burchett Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 TENNYSON S DARK NIGHT Samuel C. Burchett PERHAPS of all the great Victorians Tennyson is the one who seems at first glance most alien to the literary, moral, and social world we know today. Every age looks for an idealized...

...Clyde De L. Ryals Tennyson’s Style . By Shaw W. David . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1976 . Pp. 347 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 130 South Atlantic Quarterly past in the American psyche. It seems ironic that Baym s critical method, basically...

...Clyde De L. Ryals The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King” . By Rosenberg John D. . Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 1973 . Pp. viii , 182 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 277 since he has...

... of Arthur Hallam s own literary accomplishments nor as a reverence to one who died before the years had given him a chance to fulfil a promise of greatness, but because his death inspired Tennyson, in the years following, to write one of the world s most treasured elegies, In Memorian A. H. H. Others...

... Sellwood, the woman who years later became his wife. Martin suggests that it was owing not so much to financial con­ straints as to differences about religion and, chiefly, to Tennyson s own fears of marriage. For the first time Mattin brings up questions about the poet s sexu­ ality which other...

... made a mental note of the hint. The kindly Tennyson next approached us. Shakespeare stepped aside, muttering some comparison of Arthur, Othello, and their treatment of erring wives. He seemed contemptuous. Young man, began Tennyson, have you ever written poetry ? Weakly I confessed that I had...

... UNIVERSITY J. E. DEARLOVE The Poetry of Tennyson. By A. Dwight Culler. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977, Pp. x, 276. $15.00. One looks forward, of course, to a book on a major figure by one with the stature of Dwight Culler. One of the strengths of Professor Culler s The Poetry of Tennyson...

... was often petty, petulant, and shrill, sometimes self-deluded, but his self-righteous anger was not a pose. Some of his invective is masterly. DUKE UNIVERSITY MERLE M. BEVINGTON Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet. By Jerome Hamilton Buckley. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. xii, 298...

... of the world; but they suffered from a slow but inevitable decay, which made them too shadowy, by degrees, even for poetical use. Stephen thought Christianity out of date. He had nothing but contempt for those who tried to revive medievalism. Here he had in mind not only the Oxford movement but Tennyson...

... Voices: A Tennyson Study. By Elton Edward Smith. Lin­ coln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964. Pp. ix, 217. $5.00. Tennyson, in the judgment of Albert North Whitehead, belonged with those theologians and philosophers of the nineteenth century who were at the same time muddled and yet profound...

... in the number of run-on lines. *Glover, Mallet, Shenstone, Somerville, Thompson, Watts, Young, Cowper, Words­ worth, Browning, and Tennyson. Chronology and Metrical Tests 161 Keats published Hyperion, a Fragment in September, 1819; in the next two or three months he wrote Hyperion, a Vision, in which he kept...

... was to be immortalized by another Apostle, Alfred Tennyson, destined to be the most illustrious member of the company. Like English liberals elsewhere, the Apostles could not be indif­ ferent to the political situation that had arisen in Spain soon after Ferdinand VII, who had been an exile in Bayonne for eight years...

... window at the Old Manse, Man s accidents are God s purposes. SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY JAMES WALTER Tennyson s Style. By W. David Shaw. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 347. $12.50. Books with the word style in their titles have a dispiriting effect upon many readers. They suspect...