Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam': A Reading Guide

Anna Barton

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4134-5
$27.50

April, 2012
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4135-2
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

An appreciative introduction to the study of this major work of the Victorian period. The Guide includes the full text of the poem fully contextualised with annotated sections. Anna Barton engages closely with the text by exploring patterns of meaning and metaphors as they recur across the whole work as well as encouraging close readings of individual sections. Readers are led through different approaches and given enriching contextual information. The Teaching the Text section provides hands-on tips for further engaging students with the poem in seminars.

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Reading Guides to Long Poems (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Anna Barton is Lecturer in English at University of Sheffield.

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