Stateliest Measures : Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The English Virgil -- 1 Tennyson's Classicism in Context: The Victorians and the Ancient World -- 2 The Building Blocks of Song: Constructing the Classical Dramatic Monologue -- 3 Et in Arcadia: Transcending the Classical Elegy in In Memoriam -- 4 Classical Prosody and the 'Ocean Roll of Rhythm' -- 5 The Trilogy on Death: 'Ulysses,' 'Tithonus,' and 'Tiresias' -- 6 Old Tales for a New Day: Lucretius, Demeter, and Œnone's Return -- Appendix: Tables of Contents of the First Editions of Tennyson's Works Discussed in This Study -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Stateliest Measuresdemonstrates that Tennyson's engagement with the long-running and complex nineteenth-century debates concerning Hellenism, Imperialism, and modern British culture was much more profound than his critics have recognized.

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