Four talks on the impact of painting on English poetry' in the mid-nineteenth century
3: Tennyson and the Idylls of the King by D J. PALMER
Mr. Palmer discusses Tennyson's concept of painting, and argues that it was more in tune with Turner than with Rossetti and the early Pre-Raphaelites. At the same time he sumests that Tennyson's own poetry foreshadowed the Symbolists and even the Surrealists in its preoccupation with visionary landscape.
Second broadcast
Browning, by Philip Drew : September 3