Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age

by Louis A. Markos (Editor)

Sapientia Classics Series
In particular Markos reveals the significance of Tennyson's great poem In Memoriam for the transition from Romantic to Victorian literature, as well as the importance of his Idylls of the King for its refusal to accede to the Victorian myth of progress. Tennyson emerges as a strong critic of the materialistic philosophy and literature of the period.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Louis A. Markos received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and is a professor in English at Houston Baptist University. He is a C. S. Lewis scholar and the author of Lewis How C.S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern & Postmodern World  (Broadman & Holman), The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis  (a lecture series from The Teaching Company), and From Achilles to Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics (InterVarsity Press). Markos has spoken widely all over the US and Oxford on topics ranging from C. S. Lewis to ancient Greece and Rome to Romantic and Victorian poetry.

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First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Dr. Markos earned his B.A. in English and History from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, he specialized in British Romantic Poetry, Literary Theory, and the Classics.

He has taught at Houston Baptist University since 1991, where he is Professor in English and holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities.

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really excellent on Tennyson and his Victorian context

[Forester McClatchey · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good, accessible introduction to Tennyson. But, my God...the claims...the narratives...