Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson

Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson is a comprehensive collection of poems from various poets spanning over centuries, from ancient Greek poet Homer to the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson. The book is compiled and edited by Francis Turner Palgrave, a British critic, anthologist, and poet. The poems in this collection explore the theme of landscape, depicting the beauty and majesty of nature, and the human connection with it. The book is divided into four parts, each representing a different era in the history of poetry. The first part includes poems from ancient Greece and Rome, while the second part features works from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The third part includes poems from the Romantic period, and the final part features works from the Victorian era. The poems in this collection cover a range of styles and themes, from pastoral landscapes to rugged mountain ranges, from peaceful countryside scenes to tumultuous seascapes. Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson is a must-read for anyone interested in the beauty of nature and its representation in poetry.1897. With many illustrative examples. Francis Turner Palgrave, is remembered as the friend of Tennyson, the editor of The Golden Treasury and the twenty-first Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Contents: Landscape in the Greek Epic; Landscape in Greek Lyrical, Idyllic, and Epigrammatic Poetry; Landscape in Lucretius, Vergil, and Other Augustan Poets; Landscape in Later Roman Epic and the Elocutio Novella; Landscape in the Hebrew Poetry; Landscape in Early Italian Poetry; Landscape in Celtic and Gaelic Poetry; Landscape in Anglo-Saxon Poetry; Landscape in English Mediaeval Poetry-Chaucer and His Successors; Landscape in Elizabethan Poetry; Landscape Poetry Under the Stuart Kings; Landscape Poetry to the Close of the Eighteenth Century; Landscape in Recent Poetry-Scott and Byron; Landscape in Recent Poetry-Colerige, Keats, Shelley; The Landscape of Wordsworth; The Landscape of Browning, Arnold, Barnes, and Charles Tennyson; and The Landscape of Alfred Lord Tennyson. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.