Many Glancing Colours : : An Essay in Reading Tennyson, 1809–1850 / / Kenneth McKay.
‘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’...
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