{"product_id":"domestic-and-heroic-in-tennysons-poetry","title":"Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry","description":"Tennyson shared the assumptions of his age concerning the value of family life, and treated the domestic as the source of the heroic in both action and character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides a critical examination of these major Victorian themes as they appear in Tennyson's poetry and demonstrates how the poet's assumptions illuminate his use of elegy, idyl, and epyllion and his treatment of romance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Hair analyses \u003cem\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eEnglish Idylls\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Princess\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIdyls of the King\u003c\/em\u003e; he examines Tennyson's view of the family as the model of social order, a civilizing influence on the nation, and a place where the greater man, or hero, is nurtured; and he reveals how much of Tennyson's poetry explores the link between domestic and heroic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe also discusses the patterns into which these pervasive domestic concerns fall, with emphasis on the most significant: separation and reunions. The myth of Demeter and Persephone, the Biblical story of Ruth, and the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale are all versions of Tennyson's treatment of this pattern.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eEnglish Idylls\u003c\/em\u003e and other idyls and epyllia are explored as varying combinations of romance, satire, tragedy, comedy, and irony, with a detailed analysis of \u003cem\u003eThe Princess\u003c\/em\u003e, the most complex of these medleys. \u003cem\u003eIdylls of the King\u003c\/em\u003e, wherein the fate of Camelot rests on the marriage of Arthur and Guinevere, is treated as the fullest exploration of the link between domestic and heroic.","brand":"By Donald S. Hair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575572365494,"sku":"9781487591250","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487591250_af6637ea-cc96-48ce-9b0b-07f4a3ae3142.jpg?v=1727459897","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/domestic-and-heroic-in-tennysons-poetry","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}