{"product_id":"many-glancing-colours-9781487578749","title":"Many Glancing Colours","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Poetry,’ wrote Tennyson ‘is like shot-silk with many glancing colours.’ Taking this statement as a key to Tennyson’s art and meaning, Kenneth McKay explores in detail the maturing poems from Tennyson’s earliest efforts as a boy under his father’s eye at Somersby, through ‘Timbuctoo’ and ‘The Lover’s Tale,’ through the great poems published between 1830 and 1847, to their culmination in ‘In Memoriam,’ that complex, various, and subtle expression of Tennyson’s achieved maturity. Rooted in close analyses of individual poems, \u003cem\u003eMany Glancing Colours\u003c\/em\u003e becomes a study of the development and character of Tennyson’s liberal artistic imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough closely aligned with Coleridge’s idea of ‘multeity in unity,’ Tennyson’s sense of poetry as shot-silk is different, MacKay suggests, chiefly by its resistance to and subversion of a faith in\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359453512023,"sku":"9781487578749","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487578749.jpg?v=1754124694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/many-glancing-colours-9781487578749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}