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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3382. Tennyson, by Peter Levi (read Dec 21, 2000) Back on May 11, 1981 I read Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart, by Robert Bernard Martin, which I found to be a superlative bio, and if you want to read only one bio of Tennyson that is the one to read. But this book does have its moments, e.g., his comments on Locksley Hall Sixty Years After: "I do not recollect any indictment of the Victorian age that is more terrible....The dangerous pages are few...it is stronger than anything by Dickens, or Thackeray, or Engels" and Levi then quotes lines 217-220 and 249-257 from the poem. I do not think I'd've enjoyed being with Tennyson, but some of his work is sheerly immortal. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Peter Levi, a prolific poet and one of England's most well-respected scholars, brings his wide learning and poet's sensibility to an intelligent and appreciative examination of the life and work of one of the English language's most accomplished and enduring masters." "As the popular author of In Memoriam, Maud, Idylls of the King, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade," Alfred, Lord Tennyson towered over the middle and second half of nineteenth-century English poetry. But for all his fame and influence, including a forty-year reign as England's poet laureate and friendships with the likes of Queen Victoria, Thomas Carlyle, and Thackeray, Tennyson remained a very private, interior individual. Levi observes that the poet remains mysterious in part because his life was so intricately wedded to poetry, which itself is a mystery." "In his later years Tennyson feared he would be "ripped open like a pig" by biographers. And his close friend Benjamin Jowett wrote, "He would have wished that, like Shakespeare, his life might be unknown to posterity." But a life so abundant and work so rich as Tennyson's deserve, indeed demand, close attention. To this smart and often amusing study, Peter Levi brings his extensive knowledge of the art of poetry and his longstanding admiration for one of the most enigmatic and enduring voices in literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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That colors his legacy, no?
While the book would benefit from a culling of at least one fourth of the irrelevant, repetitive, and boring details,
Peter Levi offers many insightful and critical personal judgements.
The time sequence also is often choppy. ( )