Tennyson's major poems: The comic and ironic patterns

by James R. Kincaid

Book by Kincaid, James R.

Genres: Poetry

254 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

James R. Kincaid is an English Professor masquerading as an author (or the other way around). He’s published two novels (Lost and A History of the African-American People by Strom Thurmond — with Percival Everett). He is also the author of a couple dozen short stories, and ever so many nonfiction articles, reviews, and books, including long studies of Dickens, Trollope, and Tennyson, along with two books on Victorian and modern eroticizing of children: Child-Loving and Erotic Innocence. Kincaid has taught at Ohio State, Colorado, Berkeley, USC, and is now at Pitt.

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea of immortality through fame was, of course, not new, but Kincaid argues Tennyson gave it a special emphasis by focusing not so much on the continuance of the dead man's name as on the power of the people to grant that continuance.