The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry (Studies in Major Literary Authors, 28)

198 Pages·2003·0.69 MB·English

by  Timoth Lovelace

T A A T
HE RTISTRY ND RADITION OF
T ’ B P
ENNYSON S ATTLE OETRY
MAJOR LITERARY AUTHORS
VOLUME 28

S M
TUDIES IN AJOR
L A
ITERARY UTHORS
OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS
VOLUME 28
Edited by
William Cain
Professor of English
Wellesley College
A ROUTLEDGE SERIES
S I M L A
TUDIES N AJOR ITERARY UTHORS
William E.cain, General Editor
1. THE WAYWARD NUN OF AMHERST 15. LOST CITY
Emily Dickinson in the Medieval Women’s Visionary Fitzgerald’s New York
Tradition Lauraleigh O’Meara
Angela Conrad
16. SOCIAL DREAMING
2. PHILIP ROTH CONSIDERED
Dickens and the Fairy Tale
The Concentrationary Universe of the American
Elaine Ostry
Writer
Steven Milowitz 17. PATRIARCHY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Sexual Politics in Selected Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy
3.THE PUSHER AND THE SUFFERER
Joanna Devereux
An Unsentimental Reading of Moby Dick
Suzanne Stein 18. A NEW MATRIX FOR MODERNISM
A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew
4. HENRY JAMES AS A BIOGRAPHER
and Anna Wickham
A Self among Others
Nelljean McConeghey Rice
Cathy Moses
19. WHO READS ULYSSES?
5. JOYCEAN FRAMES
The Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars and the Common Reader
Film and the Fiction of James Joyce
Julie Sloan Brannon
Thomas Burkdall
20. NAKED LIBERTY AND THE WORLD
6. JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE ART OF
OF DESIRE
SACRIFICE
Elements of Anarchism in the Work of D.H. Lawrence
The Evolution of the Scapegoat Theme in Joseph Conrad’s
Simon Casey
Fiction
Andrew Mozina 21. THE MACHINE THAT SINGS
Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body
7. TECHNIQUE AND SENSIBILITY IN THE
Gordon Tapper
FICTION
AND POETRY OF RAYMOND CARVER 22. T.S. ELIOT’S CIVILIZED SAVAGE
Arthur F.Bethea Religious Eroticism and Poetics
Laurie J.MacDiarmid
8. SHELLEY’S TEXTUAL SEDUCTIONS
Plotting Utopia in the Erotic and Political Works 23. THE CARVER CHRONOTOPE
Samuel Lyndon Gladden Inside the Life-World of Raymond Carver’s Fiction
G.P.Lainsbury
9.“ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE”
Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley’s Novels 24. THIS COMPOSITE VOICE
Charlene E.Bunnell The Role of W.B.Yeats in James Merrill’s Poetry
Mark Bauer
10.“THOUGHTS PAINFULLY INTENSE”
Hawthorne and the Invalid Author 25. PROGRESS AND IDENTITY IN THE PLAYS OF
James N.Mancall W.B.YEATS
Barbara A.Suess
11. SEX THEORIES AND THE SHAPING OF Two
MODERNS 26. CONRAD’S NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCE
Hemingway and H.D. Not Exactly Tales for Boys
Deirdre Anne (McVicker) Pettipiece Lissa Schneider
12. WORD SIGHTINGS 27. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AND VICTORIAN
Visual Apparatus and Verbal Reality in Stevens, CATHOLICISM
Bishop and O’Hara Jill Muller
Sarah Riggs
13. DELICATE PURSUIT
Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
Jessica Levine
14. GERTRUDE STEIN AND WALLACE STEVENS
The Performance of Modern Consciousness
Sara J.Ford
T A A T
HE RTISTRY ND RADITION OF
T ’ B P
ENNYSON S ATTLE OETRY
J.Timothy Lovelace
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lovelace, John Timothy.
The artistry and tradition of Tennyson’s battle poetry/by J.Timothy Lovelace.
p. cm.—(Studies in major literary authors; v. 28)
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-415-96763-5 (alk. paper)
1. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892—Knowledge—Military art and science.
2. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892. Idylls of the king. 3. Tennyson, Alfred
Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892. Maud. 4. Classicism—England—History—19th century.
5. Military art and science in literature. 6. English poetry—Greek influence. 7. Battles in literature.
8. Homer—Influence. I. Title: Artistry and tradition of Tennyson’s battle poetry. II. Title.
III. Series.
PR5592.M55L688 2003
821'.8–dc21 2003001483
ISBN 0-203-49079-7 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-57882-1 (Adobe eReader Format)
To my parents
Oscar N.Lovelace
and
Peggy H.Lovelace

Contents
CHAPTER ONE
Tennyson and the Heroic Tradition 3
CHAPTER TWO
The Early War Poetry 21
CHAPTER THREE
Historical and Legendary Battles 51
CHAPTER FOUR
Contemporary Conflicts 85
CHAPTER FIVE
Maud 119
CHAPTER SIX
Idylls of the King 137

BIBLIOGRAPHY 167
INDEX 181
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