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- Title
Naming and Not Naming: Tennyson and Mallarmé.
- Authors
Caws, Mary Ann; Joseph, Gerhard
- Abstract
The article compares the poetry of English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and Stéphane Mallarmé, a French symbolist poet. Since the first half of the collaboration will eventually be about authorial achievement of impersonality, about the "disappearance of the speaker" within the poet's name, by contrast, with the resonance of a personal anecdote. The fact that Tennyson's early work contributed to the evolution of a Symbolist aesthetic has been something of a critical truism. As verbal meaning yearns for the purity of elemental sound, such a gravitation in both Tennyson and Mallarmé moves from an aesthetic of particularity towards an aesthetic of sonal and visual suggestiveness; it generates a tension between the originating image and the general impression, from what is materially present to the Idea or Ideal.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; POETS; MALLARME, Stephane, 1842-1898; SYMBOLISM (Literary movement); ENGLISH poetry; SYMBOLISM; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0013