Pressing Forward
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932589368 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whether or not you conclude that he makes his case, you will be glad you took the trip. --John Wilson, editor, "Books & Culture"Tennyson, one of the brightest stars of the Victorian literary firmament, has suffered partial eclipse in recent decades due to the systematic abuse of his reputation by deconstructed critics. This is a truly major study of a truly major poet. Counterintuitively, Louis Markos argues that no past age so closely resembles our own. Like the best of those "teaching tapes," Pressing Forward is at once learned and conversational, and I finished the book wishing for more. It is, therefore, a great joy to see this great poet emerging from the shadows under the perspicacious focus of Louis Markos. --Joseph Pearce, Ave Maria Un
S. S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern & Postmodern World" (Broadman & Holman) and "The Life and Writings of C. Louis A. S. . Lewis scholar and the author of "Lewis Agonistes: How C.S. Lewis to ancient Greece and Rome to Romantic and Victorian poetry. He is a C. Markos has spoken widely all over the US and Oxford on topics ranging fro
Convivio Achilles Pressing Forward, Alfred Lord Tennyson and the Victorian age is a wonderful book to discover the intellectual roots from the Romantic to the Victorian age as delivered through the poets and their poetry. In addition to clarifying and interpreting Lord Tennyson's poetry and putting it into historical context, Professor Markos supports his explanations with the works and ideas of such great men as Cardinal Newman, Mill, Huxely, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold amongst others. It is like being invited to a great dinner party with these extraordinary guests. Let Prof. Progress and the Soul Gandalf My comliments to Louis Markos for a well written, reasoned and entertaining tour de force. I have read other books by this author and have found him to be a well informed, rational and principled writer. Having studied Victorian literature, I retain a fondness for the period and the genre. Louis Markos brings the great minds, "sages", of the period to life. He understands the powerful currents of change that carried the British people and Victorian society onward; andwhere that current should lead was one of the central questions of the age. Louis Markos sho
Tennyson emerges as a strong critic of the materialistic philosophy and literature of the period.. Markos places the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the context of the crisis of faith that marked the Victorian Age, whose notable figures included Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Huxley, John Henry Newman, and John Stuart Mill. Louis A. 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