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Tennysonian, a. and n.|tɛnɪˈsəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of the poet Alfred (Lord) Tennyson (1809–1892) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Tennyson, his works, or his style.
1846Lytton New Timon ii. 51 Where all the airs of patchwork-pastoral chime To drowsy ears in Tennysonian rhyme! 1853Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 249 [M. Arnold's poems] Very clever; with a little of the Tennysonian leaven in them. 1861Times 10 Oct., His success exceeds that of his predecessors who have attempted the rendering of this Tennysonian classic [Catullus]. 1876Stedman Vict. Poets vi. (1887) 227 These effects, which the Laureate employs with such variation and continuance that the resultant style is known as Tennysonian, were Dorian first of all.
B. n. An admirer, imitator, disciple, or student of Tennyson.
1850J. Brown Let. Dec. (1912) 116, I am not a Tennysonian, as many are. 1864H. Sidgwick Let. May in A. & E. M. Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1906) ii. 108 The compressed inhaltsvoll classic style of Tennyson and Tennysonians. 1883Harper's Mag. Feb. 469/1 By all the Tennysonians of this generation it will be deeply regretted. 1970T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites vi. 161 William Morris..like all reading men, was a Tennysonian.
Hence Tennysoniˈana [-iana], matters connected with Tennyson; Tennyˈsonianism, ˈTennysonism, a characteristic trait or mannerism of Tennyson's style; an imitation of that style; Tennyˈsonianized ppl. a., rendered in the manner of Tennyson; Tennyˈsonianly adv.; Tennyˈsonianness = Tennysonianism, Tennysonism; Tennyˈsonize v. trans., to render in the style of Tennyson.
1843Mrs. Browning Let. to C. Mathews 14 Mar. in Davey's Catal. (1895) 15, I had been pleased with the poetical sense of his [Lowell's] book, which he sent me long ago,—notwithstanding the Tennysonianisms of it. a1849Poe Channing Wks. 1864 III. 234 The affectations—the Tennysonisms of Mr. Channing. 1866R. H. Shepherd (title) Tennysoniana. 1910A. D. Godley Lectures Eng. Lit. ii, in Reliquiae (1926) II. 288 Tennyson is full of reminiscences of the great classics, thoughts and phrases not slavishly copied but Tennysonised—passed through the medium of an art which added beauty to everything it touched. 1915E. Pound Let. Jan. (1971) 49 [In poetry] there must be..no straddled adjectives (as ‘addled mosses dank’), no Tennysonianness of speech. 1916Ibid. ? 20 July (1971) 87 Virgil is a second-rater, a Tennysonianized version of Homer. 1932L. Magnus Herbert Warren viii. 215 His own annotated copy of the one-volume edition of the Memoir is a veritable treasure of Tennysoniana. 1964English Studies XLV. 73 ‘Lycidas’ once read ‘under the glimmering eyelids of the morne’, most Tennysonianly. 1975Listener 20 Nov. 685/1 Superintendent Dalziel, on unwanted holiday in sodden fens, meets a Tennysonianly aqueous funeral cortège. |