Demeter and Persephone

By Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was one of the greatest English poets of all time, becoming the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Tennyson’s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1848, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt made a list of “Immortals”, artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, notably including Keats and Tennyson, whose work would form subjects for Pre-Raphaelite’s paintings.
Demeter and other poems was one of the last Tennyson’s poems collections. It was published in London in 1889, three years before the dead of the poet. It is a collection with an exquisitely mythological and pantheistic spirit. It includes masterpieces such as To Ulisses, Parnassus, The Ring, and the splendid poem Demeter and Persephone, which today we re-propose to modern readers. It focuses on the events and drama of the two Goddesses, the Mother and the Daughter: Demeter and Kore-Persephone, emblems of the Sacred Feminine, the Goddesses who brought to all humanity a message of redemption and hope of immortality, with the establishment of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Release date: Jul 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9791255043676

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SYMBOLS & MYTHS

SIR ALFRED TENNYSON

DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE

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Title: Demeter and Persephone

Author: Sir Alfred Tennyson

Publishing series: Symbols & Myths

Editing by Nicola Bizzi

ISBN: 979-12-5504-367-6

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INTRODUCTION BY THE PUBLISHER

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Fellowship of the Royal Society (1809-1892) was one of the greatest English poets of all time, becoming the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson’s early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Tennyson also excelled at short lyrics, such as Break, Break, Break, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tears, Idle Tears, and Crossing the Bar. Much of his verse was based on