Jennifer Holberg – Tennyson’s ‘In Memorium’

How do we think about faith and doubt in an everchanging world?

Brent is joined by Jennifer Holberg to discuss Alfred Lord Tennyson and his massive poem ‘In Memorium’.

Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing.  She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’.  

• (1:35) Who was Tennyson?
• (4:30) Rossetti and Hopkins;
• (8:20) The poem and Arthur Hallam;
• (12:00) The Prologue;
• (19:00) Opening stanzas 1,5,6 and 7;
• (29:50) Stanza 27;
• (31:40) 28-31. The first Christmas;
• (35:00) The 50’s;
• (35:20) The lowest point of the poem?
• (46:20) Does the work resolve? A mystical experience – Stanza 95;
• (49: 15) Stanza 96;
• (53:20) 118-124;
• (59:00) God as love.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com.au/dp/1514005247?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_nz

calvin.edu/people/jennifer-l-holberg

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