Books by Anna Barton

It provides an account of poetry's intervention into four different sites where liberalism has a stake: the self, the university, married life and the nation state and it seeks to assert the peculiar capacity of poetry to articulate liberal concerns, proposing poetic language as a means of liberal enquiry.

Seeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up to one of the most famous names in Victorian literature, this book offers readings of Tennyson's major works.

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem.In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential poems of the 19th century. Composed over nearly three decades and spanning over 100 sections, it is one of the longest elegies in the English language. It is at once a deeply personal description of grief and a wide-ranging discussion of its age.This guide provides:* The full text of the poem;* Information about its cultural, historical and literary contexts;* Four different reading strategies for approaching the text;* Suggested seminar activities, assessments and module outlines for teachers and lecturers