Offers a critical introduction to the life and work of English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, examining his poetry, plays, and dramatic monologues, and pointing out his lifelong experiments with poetic language and genre.
From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, this helpful guide gives you everything you need to know to really understand literature, as well as references to and quotations from novels, stories, poems, plays, and more.
The author examines five American works which he defines as classics including "Moby Dick," "The Scarlet Letter," "Leaves of Grass," "Walden," and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and discusses how each has been received and interpreted.
