The Moxon Tennyson

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The Artists

• Thomas Creswick
• J. C. Horsley
• William Holman Hunt
• John Everett Millais
• William Mulready
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Clarkson Stanfield

Contemporary reviews and reception of the Moxon Tennyson

• Tennyson on book illustration (and his reaction to Hunt’s work)
• Art-Journal (1856)

Critical Discussions

• The Moxon Tennyson – An analysis of the ‘Other’ Illustrators

Discussion Questions

• William Holman Hunt's Illustration for Tennyson's "Godiva"
• Artistic Choices in Millais's Illustration of Tennyson's "Mariana"
• The Struggle between Form and Content in William Holman Hunt's Lady of Shalott
• Chaste Longing: Illustrations of Rossetti and Millais for the Moxon Tennyson

Bibliography

Poems by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. London: E. Moxon, 1857.

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