"The Poet of Science": how scientists read their Tennyson

Tennyson’s responses to science have been thoroughly documented and discussed, but how did scientists respond to his poetry? Through examining in detail the work of three scientists who wrote at length about Tennyson--the astronomer Norman Lockyer, the physicist Oliver Lodge, and the American geologist William North Rice--it is possible to see how Tennyson went from being respected by contemporary scientists to being feted as the Poet of Science itself after his death. As a materialist, a Spiritualist, and a Darwinian Methodist respectively, Lockyer, Lodge, and Rice had very different conceptions of how science worked and what it implied about the universe, yet each looked to Tennyson and his poetry to confirm and extend his own judgements and values.

Lancelot und Elaine. Zweite symphonische Dichtung nach Tennyson für grosses Orchester

In portfolio.

Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and other literary estimates /

Reprinted in part from various periodicals. cf. Note.

Charles Tennyson Turner.

Cover title.

Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson.

Mode of access: Internet.

Six centuries of English poetry : Tennyson to Chaucer : typical selections from the great poets /

Mode of access: Internet.

From Milton to Tennyson : masterpieces of English poetry /

The notes have special t.-p. and separate paging.

Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson. With copious indexes: authors, 550; subjects, 435; quotations, 13,600.

First published in 1873.

Friend Perditus A novel : By Mary H. Tennyson In two volumes.

Mary H. Tennyson is a pseudonym for M.H.T. Folkard.

Constructing desire : Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman and the development of homoerotic desire in elegiac poetry

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.