The Pre-Eminent Victorian: A Study of Tennyson

Table of contents

• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Illustrations 7
• Introduction 13
• Part One - The Fairy Building of Youth 15
• Chapter One - The Fairy Building of Youth 17
• Part Two - The Quest for the Princess 29
• Chapter Two - Emily 31
• Chapter Three - People and Poems 37
• Chapter Four - The Melancholy Apollo 40
• Chapter Five - The Princess 47
• Part Three - Annus Mirabilis 55
• Chapter Six - In Memoriam 57
• Chapter Seven - Mr and Mrs Tennyson 62
• Chapter Eight - 'In the Room of William Wordsworth, Esq....' 69
• Part Four - Farringford 73
• Chapter Nine - The Calm Domestic World 75
• Chapter Ten - The Flight from the Footlights 82
• Chapter Eleven - The Storm Without 85
• Chapter Twelve - Farringford 98
• Chapter Thirteen - White Flowers and Blameless Lives 109
• Chapter Fourteen - The Apparition in Red Velvet 120
• Chapter Fifteen - The Queen's Poet 126
• Chapter Sixteen - Exits and Entrances 134
• Chapter Seventeen - Enoch Arden 140
• Chapter Eighteen - Lighting Up the Blackness 150
• Chapter Nineteen - The August Parent 155
• Chapter Twenty - Gloria Deo in Excelsis 167
• Part Five - Aldworth 175
• Chapter Twenty-One - The Master of Aldworth 177
• Chapter Twenty-Two - The Magnificent Shepherd 185
• Chapter Twenty-Three - Laureate and Lyceum 198
• Chapter Twenty-Five - Plays and Tragedies 213
• Part Six - 'something More Than Common Mortality' 219
• Chapter Twenty-Six - Lord Tennyson 221
• Chapter Twenty-Seven - Tennyson V. Gladstone 226
• Chapter Twenty-Eight - Spectres in the Darkness 232
• Chapter Twenty-Nine - Lord Tennyson and Mr Browning 240
• Chapter Thirty - 'More Than Common Mortality' 245
• Chapter Thirty-One - 'the Very Joy of My Heart' 254
• Chapter Thirty-Two - The Passing of Merlin 266
• Part Seven - The Pre-Eminent Victorian 273
• Chapter Thirty-Three - The Pre-Eminent Victorian 275
• Selected Bibliography 295
• Index 307

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