By M. Sherwood
Via an exam of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of britain and the English - of their altering nineteenth-century context, this booklet demonstrates that a lot of his representations have been 'fabrications', extra idealized than genuine, which performed an integral part within the country's constructing identification and feel of its position on the planet.
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The first review of Poems, published in the Athenaeum on 1 December 1832, foreshadows critics’ demands for a clear and simple style and unaffected language. 17 Remarking on Tennyson’s evident love of early English poets, the reviewer regrets that with their admirable The Reception of Poems (1832) 33 qualities – particularly the ‘beautiful appreciation of the female character’ – he has also captured their many ‘affectations’. The critic concludes that the poetry is ‘disfigured’ by archaisms and words ‘newly compounded after the German model’, which ‘hinder the due appreciation’ of Tennyson’s fine poetic spirit.
5 Tennyson’s first direct contact with Moxon was on 13 October, requesting duplicate proof sheets for correction. Aware that ‘this proceeding would somewhat delay publication’, he added, ‘but I am in no hurry. My MSS . . ’6 Last-minute changes during publication suggest Tennyson’s poetic integrity. Despite Hallam’s impassioned pleas – ‘You must be pointblank mad. It will please vast numbers of people’7 – and the prospect of public notice and remuneration, Tennyson withdrew The Lover’s Tale, a blank verse poem of more than a thousand lines, intended to end the volume and already set up in print.
Early reviewers and their concerns: the daily and weekly papers Whether hostile or friendly, the reviews of Poems acknowledge Tennyson’s poetic gift. They also reveal the reviewers’ increasing preoccupation with the language of poetry, not only the affectations preventing a reader’s sympathetic identification with a poem’s subject but also the formation and derivation of the English language. The critics’ concerns exemplify the remarkable development of language consciousness in the 32 Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of which the movement towards – and reaction against – the standardization of the English language was an inseparable part.
