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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 Routledge New York & London Published in 2003 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE www.routledge.co.uk Copyright © 2003 by J.Timothy Lovelace Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 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 ix
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