Article: "A poet never sees a ghost": photography and trance in Tennyson's Enoch Arden and Julia Margaret Cameron's photography.(Critical Essay)

TENNYSON'S VOLUME ENOGH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS (1864), INITIALLY advertised as Idylls of the Hearth, was a publishing sensation, selling 17,000 copies on the day of publication and 60,000 before the year's end. (1) Nevertheless, little recent critical attention has been paid to the idyll that gives the volume its title. (2) Furthermore, while recent commentators have explored Julia Margaret Cameron's illustrations to many of Tennyson's poems, in particular Idylls of the King, her three photographs depicting characters from Enoch Arden have been even more overlooked than the poem itself. (3) The relation between the idyll and the photographs is, however, crucial to an ...

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