Tennyson's Language

Donald Hair

Published by University of Toronto Press 1991

Tennyson's Language

Donald Hair

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442659599

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Hair offers a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory in Britain while also providing some close readings of key passages of Tennyson’s work and examinations of the poet’s faith and views of society.

Author / Editor information

Hair Donald :

Donald S. Hair is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, and author of Tennyson's Language, Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry, and Browning's Experiments with Genre.

Reviews

David Shaw:
‘No scholar has expounded as authoritatively as Hair—with as much lucidity and range—the complex philosophic and philological influences that helped make Tennyson, like his beloved Virgil, a “lord of language.”’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter One. Matter-moulded forms of speech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter Two. A landscape-painter in words, a colourist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter Three. I hear a voice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Four. At the sound of my name Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter Five. Heart-affluence in discursive talk: In Memoriam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter Six. Man's word is God in man: Idylls of the King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 206

eBook

Published: December 15, 1991
ISBN: 9781442659599