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- Title
The Breathing Space of Ballad: Tennyson's Stillborn Poetics.
- Authors
RUDERMAN, D. B.
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the poetics of Alfred Tennyson within the metaphors of death, life, and birth. Details are given citing the trope of a stillborn child within several of his works and discussion is given regarding both the biographical significance of infant death to the writer, but also allusions of birth-giving to his own creative process.
- Subjects
TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; 19TH century English poetry; LITERARY criticism; HISTORY of poetics; STILLBIRTH; CHILDBIRTH in literature; ARTISTIC creation; NINETEENTH century; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 1, p151
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0053