Alfred Tennyson.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Alfred Tennyson. By SEAMUS PERRY. Tavistock: Northcote House. 2005. xviii+ 191 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7463-0919-3.

The 'Writers and their Work' series, published by the British Council, has come a long way since those little soft-bound pamphlets of the 1960s which sought to pack the essential information about Shakespeare or Yeats into about fifty pages. Seamus Perry's book attends closely to the question of 'how Tennyson's imagination dealt with his lyric gift' (p. xv). 'Dealt with' might suggest that the gift was unruly and untamed, but the body of this ...

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