Genre and Mode in Tennyson's Poems

[Victorian Web Home —> Authors —> Alfred Tennyson —> Works —> Theme and Subject —> Image, Symbol, and Motif]

Style and Mode

• Irony in Tennyson: An Introduction
• Irony in the early poems
• Comedy in Tennyson: An Introduction

The Genres of Tennyson's Poems — Lyric and shorter narrative poems

• "The Kraken"
• "Mariana"
• "The Lady of Shalott" (text) (discussions)
• "The Palace of Art" (text)

The Domestic Idyls

• Introduction

Elegy

• In Memoriam
• In Memoriam as Experiment in Genre

Dramatic Monologue

• Introduction
• Contemporary subject
• Mythological or classical subject
  • "St. Simeon Stylites"
  • "Tithonus"
  • "Ulysses"

Long narrative poems

• The Idylls of the King
• The Idylls and the Victorian Long Poem
• Maud
• The Princess

Drama

Political and Public Poems

• Introduction

Translations

• "The Battle of Brunanburh"

---

Victorian
Web

Authors

Alfred Lord
Tennyson

Works

Last modified 30 November 2004