Landscapes of Eternal Return

Roger Ebbatson is currently Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, UK, having previously taught at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria, the University of Worcester, and Loughborough University. He is a Fellow of the English Association, and a Vice-President of the Tennyson Society. His publications include Lawrence and the Nature Tradition (1980), Hardy: The Margin of the Unexpressed (1994), An Imaginary England (2005), Heidegger’s Bicycle (2006), and Landscape & Literature, 1830-1914 (2013).

• Introduction.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Romantic Fragments: The Poetry of Arthur Hallam.- 3. Young Tennyson and the Orient.- 4. Morte’d’Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return.- 5. Friendship and Melancholia: In Memoriam LXXXV.- 6. Richard Jefferies: Seeking the Beyond.- 7. ‘Time’s Mindless Rote’: Evolution and Recurrence in Hardy.- 8. Tess’s Boots: Hardy and Van Gogh.- 9. The Isle of Slingers: Hardy and Portland Bill.- 10. ‘Before the Mirror’: Swinburne, Hardy, Kristeva.- Bibliography.- Index.