"A poet never sees a ghost": photography and trance in Tennyson's Enoch Arden and Julia Margaret Cameron's photography.(Critical Essay)

From: Victorian Poetry | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Chapman, Alison | Copyright information

TENNYSON'S VOLUME ENOGH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS (1864), INITIALLY advertised as Idylls of the Hearth, was a publishing sensation, selling 17,000 copies on the day of publication and 60,000 before the year's end. (1) Nevertheless, little recent critical attention has been paid to the idyll that gives the volume its title. (2) Furthermore, while recent commentators have explored Julia Margaret Cameron's illustrations to many of Tennyson's poems, in particular Idylls of the King, her th...

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