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A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears"
A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears"
A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears"
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A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears"

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A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateAug 19, 2016
ISBN9781535834704
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    A Study Guide for Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears" - Gale

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    Tears, Idle Tears

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    1847

    Introduction

    Tears, Idle Tears was published in 1847, in a volume of poetry titled The Princess. After years of struggling with poverty, Alfred, Lord Tennyson was awarded a government pension in 1845, which allowed him to apply himself to longer works. The Princess was intended to be a long examination of a contemporary controversy, the education of women and the establishment of female colleges. The focus of The Princess shifted, though, while Tennyson was writing it, and it ended up giving more consideration to the roles of men and women in society, which the poet considered to be moving unnaturally toward each other. The Princess achieved popularity—when the first edition sold out, new editions appeared, year after year, for decades following—but critics considered it a failure of Tennyson’s imagination, a sign of his inability to maintain a subject throughout an extended work. The same critics, though, did praise specific poems that had appeared as part of the larger work, in particular "Tears, Idle

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