{"product_id":"domestic-and-heroic-in-tennysons-poetry-9781487591250","title":"Domestic and Heroic in Tennysons Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTennyson 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409172439383,"sku":"9781487591250","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487591250.jpg?v=1730505754","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/domestic-and-heroic-in-tennysons-poetry-9781487591250","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}