Tennyson and Geology

This book offers new interpretations of Tennyson’s major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell’s  Principles of Geology  (1830-3). Employing various approaches – from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin’s concept of dialogism – the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson’s poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson’s poetics in explicating the i