Tennyson - The Unquiet Heart

Informationen zum Autor Robert Bernard Martin (1918-1999) was born in Illinois. He had a distinguished academic career and was Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University, USA, from 1951 to 1975, before retiring to Oxford, where he became a writer. He published ten books about the Victorian era, including biographies such as Tennyson, the Unquiet Heart in 1980 and A Very Private Life in 1991. Klappentext The lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson! one of the greatest Victorian poets! and the apparent ease with which he wrote them! long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life. This biography reveals the sources of the successes and failures of this Victorian poet. Zusammenfassung The lyric perfection of the works of Alfred Tennyson, one of the greatest Victorian poets, and the apparent ease with which he wrote them, long obscured the disparity between the unruffled surface of many of his poems and his deeply disturbed life. This biography reveals the sources of the successes and failures of this Victorian poet.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bernard Martin, Martin Robert Bernard
• Assisted by: Marti Bernard (Editor), Martin Bernard (Editor), Robert Martin Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780571251940
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25194-0
• No. of pages: 680
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: writers, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Dysfunction; Faber Finds; Victorian; Writers