Tennyson by John Batchelor
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. This biography shows him as a Romantic as well as a Victorian, exploring both the poems and Tennyson's attempts at play writing, as well as the pressures of his age and the personal relationships that made the man.Batchelor’s book is a useful reminder of what makes Tennyson a brilliant poet: it points the reader back in the direction of the poems -- Emma Hogan * New Statesman *
John Batchelor has written a biography which is commendably careful, highly readable and wholly sensibleIt should stand, in years to come, as the most advisable entry point into this most inscrutable of poets * Spectator *
By far the most serious and just biography of Tennyson in a long time * Wall Street Journal *
It's a pleasure when a biographer is as good a reader of poems as of life * New York Times Book Review *
John Batchelor has recently retired from the University of Newcastle and is now Emeritus Professor there. Formerly Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at Newcastle, he was also a visiting Professor of the University of Lancaster and previously a Fellow of New College Oxford. His books include biographies of Joseph Conrad and John Ruskin, monographs on the work of Virginia Woolf and H.G. Wells, and a study of the Edwardian novel. His most recent book, Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is a lively biography of Pauline Trevelyan who established a salon of the arts in Wallington, Northumberland.
John Batchelor was until recently an editor (English and American literature) of the literary periodical Modern Language Review and general editor of the Yearbook of English Studies. He lives in Newcastle, and is working on a new study of Rudyard Kipling.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845950767 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845950763 |
| Title | Tennyson |
| Author | John Batchelor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-12-04 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
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