"A Want of That True Theory": "Julian and Maddalo" as Dramatic Monologue

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard A. Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
True Theory

The Dramatic Monologue

PMLA ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Beth Sessions
Keyword(s):  
Dramatic Monologue

Open Induction and the True Theory of Rationals

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zofia Adamowicz
Keyword(s):  
True Theory ◽  
Open Induction

Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ and the Revision of Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-187
Author(s):  
Jayne Thomas
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
Tintern Abbey ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the Wordsworthian echoes and borrowings in the 1860 dramatic monologue ‘Tithonus’, revealing ‘Tithonus’, and, in part the earlier ‘Tithon’ on which it is based, as a rewriting of the relationship between mind and nature, of the self reencountering itself in time, as it appears in Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ (1798). In reworking Wordsworth’s interaction between mind and nature, ‘Tithonus’ is consolidating a new poetic alongside revising what has ostensibly become an outdated poetic trope. The revisions, in part, free Tennyson from the universal subjectivity of the lyric speaker, thereby strengthening the strategies of the monologue. Yet, Tennyson’s borrowings and echoes create effects that the poet cannot fully control, feeding, compromising, directing, and, ultimately, supporting the poem.

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