Tennyson
by Levi, Peter
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0333529952
- ISBN 13
- 9780333529959
- Seller
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About This Item
Macmillan, London, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 370 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Peter Levi, a prolific poet and one of England's most well-respected scholars, brings his wide learning and poet's sensibility to an intelligent and appreciative examination of the life and work of one of the English language's most accomplished and enduring masters. As the popular author of In Memoriam, Maud, Idylls of the King, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade", Alfred, Lord Tennyson towered over the middle and second half of nineteenth-century English poetry. But for all his fame and influence, including a forty-year reign as England's poet laureate and friendships with the likes of Queen Victoria, Thomas Carlyle, and Thackeray, Tennyson remained a very private, interior individual. Levi observes that the poet remains mysterious in part because his life was so intricately wedded to poetry, which itself is a mystery. In his later years Tennyson feared he would be "ripped open like a pig" by biographers. And his close friend Benjamin Jowett wrote, "He would have wished that, like Shakespeare, his life might be unknown to posterity". But a life so abundant and work so rich as Tennyson's deserve, indeed demand, close attention. To this smart and often amusing study, Peter Levi brings his extensive knowledge of the art of poetry and his longstanding admiration for one of the most enigmatic and enduring voices in literature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; England; 19th century; ISBN: 0333529952. ISBN/EAN: 9780333529959. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10167. . 9780333529959
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10167
- Title
- Tennyson
- Author
- Levi, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0333529952
- ISBN 13
- 9780333529959
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- BZDB137 alfred lord tennyson, poetry, england, 19th century, literature, biography Biography & Autobiography; England; 19th century; Unbranded ISBN: 0333529952 EAN: 9780333529959 Levi, Peter Tennyson
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