In Memoriam (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Tennyson, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393979261 ISBN 13: 9780393979268

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

Tennyson’s central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriam’s formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennyson’s use of the stanza and the poem’s rhyme scheme.

The authoritative text is again that of the Eversley Edition of Tennyson’s Works, published in 1901–8, which is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.

“Criticism” contains thirteen essays-―seven of which are new to the Second Edition―among them examples of formal (Sarah Gates), contextual (W. David Shaw), reader-response (Timothy Peltason), queer (Jeff Nunokawa), and genre (Alan Sinfield) criticism. A chapter from Christopher Ricks’s influential biography, Tennyson, is included.

A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of First Lines are also included.

About this title

About the Author:

Erik Gray is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University and a specialist in Romantic and Victorian Poetry. He is the author of several articles, including ones on Tennyson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and various Romantic and Victorian topics.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393979261
• ISBN 13: 9780393979268
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Gray Erik