Reckoning with Mortality in Tennyson's 'Ulysses' & 'Tithonus'

About this episode

The episode explores Alfred Lord Tennyson's life and works, focusing on themes of mortality in 'Ulysses' and 'Tithonus'.

In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe close season four by turning to Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the defining poetic voices of the Victorian age. They begin with Tennyson’s life and career, from his birth in Lincolnshire in 1809 to his time at Cambridge, where he became part of the Apostles and formed his deeply important friendship with Arthur Henry Hallam. The episode places special attention on Hallam’s sudden de...

People in this episode

Hosts: Maiya, Joe

Topics covered

• mortality
• Tennyson
• Victorian poetry
• friendship
• literary analysis

Keywords

• Tennyson
• Ulysses
• Tithonus
• mortality
• Victorian poetry
• literary analysis
• friendship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PoemAnalysis.com, Poetry+

Places: Lincolnshire