dc.contributor.author | Gray, James Martin | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-06T10:23:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-06T10:23:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1961 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18245 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is a curious fact of the recant scholarship inspired by
the "return to Tennyson," that his Arthurian poetry, into which he
put a lifetime's thought and skill, has bean almost ignored. While
a few articles have dealt with minor points, critics hare been content
to ignore these poems, particularly the Idylls of the King, as if
they were literary fossils, efforts to put a superficial Victorian
patina on the medieval Arthurian chronicles and romances. This
critical neglect has meant that there is no clear idea of the extent
and kind of tho Arthurian sources upon which Tennyson drew.
I believe it is useless to assess Tennyson's Arthurian poetry
until we take these sources into consideration, and accordingly the
greater part of this thesis is taken up with their systematic
examination. Aratny thesis as such is to show that Tennyson's
reha: dling of the sources is so extensive and comprehensive that
it constitutes an original creation.
Within the scope of a work of this kind I cannot claim to
have treated, every aspect of Tennyson's Arthurian poetry exhaustively;
but I hope the work I have done will make it easier for others to
form a picture of the skill and insight with which Tennyson wrote,
in order to present the legends in a suitable form, and not simply
as idle tales. | en |
dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2016 Block 5 | en |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | | en |
dc.title | Arthurian poetry of Tennyson | en |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en |