A Blueprint of His Dissent: Madness and Method in Tennyson's Poetry
- ISBN-10
- 0838751512
- ISBN-13
- 9780838751510
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 137
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Author
- Roger S. Platizky
Description
A systematic examination of five poems by Tennyson revealing a subtle encoding by the poet of a multi-level criticism of Victorian mores. The dementia of Tennyson's mad speakers is shown to arise from problematic Victorian conflicts about faith, duty, death, and the suppression of desire.
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