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- Title
"Of happy men that have the power to die": Tennyson's "Tithonus".
- Authors
WEINFIELD, HENRY
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the poem "Tithonus" by Alfred Tennyson is presented. The author sees the poem as a meditation on death and immortality, comparing it to the Hyperion poems of poet John Keats, to the poet John Milton's "Paradise Lost," the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes and to Tennyson's own poems "In Memoriam" and "Tintern Abbey." He shows the poem ending with the title character, Tithonus, reconciled to death and the lack of immortality.
- Subjects
TITHONUS (Poem : Tennyson); TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; POETRY explication; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p355
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0060