Essays about: "Tennyson"

Found 2 essays containing the word Tennyson.

1. 1. A Paradise Fading : Perceptions of Wild Nature in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur and His Knights

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Li Hedenmalm; [2018]
   Keywords : Alfred Lord Tennyson; Idylls of the King; Howard Pyle; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; Victorian literature; ecocriticism; nature; wilderness; industrialism; animalisation; nostalgia; paradise;

   Abstract : This thesis explores representations of wild nature in two Arthurian texts – one British and one American – produced in an age characterised by rapid social transformation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-1885) and Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). By investigation of the textual descriptions of wilderness and the portrayals of characters living there, the study aims to investigate what attitudes towards unkempt nature are displayed in the two texts. READ MORE

3. 2. From the Italian Shore : Tracing the Petrarchan Tradition in Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Boris Lazic; [2016]
   Keywords : Poetry; Victorian literature; Petrarchism;

   Abstract : This essay is focused on Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam, interpreting the poem against the background of a Petrarchan tradition. In this text I show how Tennyson’s work exhibits several parallels to the traditional elements of Petrarchism, both in terms of the themes it explores and of itsmore formal aspects. READ MORE