In Memoriam, Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Joanne P. Zuckermann (essay date 1971)
Joanne P. Zuckermann (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: Zuckermann, Joanne P. “Tennyson's In Memoriam as Love Poetry.” Dalhousie Review 51, no. 2 (summer 1971): 202-17.
[In the following essay, Zuckermann depicts In Memoriam as a series of love poems influenced by Shakespeare's sonnets.]
Most of the few modern explanations of In Memoriam have, like E. B. Mattes' In Memoriam: The Way of a Soul1 and Graham Hough's “Natural Theology in In Memoriam”,2 concerned themselves principally with the source and precise meaning of the poem's intellectual speculations. While inevitably admitting Tennyson's ultimate subjectivism, critics have concerned themselves little with the nature of the subjective experiences underlying the poem or the literary conventions governing their presentation.
In Memoriam is indeed in one sense a philosophical poem: it must have been amongst the works...
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