RT Article
T1 Defending Tennyson
JF Christianity & literature
VO 66
IS 2
SP 274
OP 292
A1 Colón, Christine A. 1968-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1559128321
AB Dorothy L. Sayers’s interactions with Tennyson’s poetry provide a powerful example of her theology of charitable reading. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Sayers refused to oversimplify Tennyson’s works. She defended him from his critics and used some of his ideas to inform Gaudy Night, crafting an insightful critique of The Princess that acknowledges the poem’s problems but also emphasizes its underlying truths. Sayers never completely articulated her theology of charitable reading, but with her approach to Tennyson, she enacts the theology that is implicit in her reflections on the artist in The Mind of the Maker.
K1 Alfred Lord Tennyson
K1 Dorothy L. Sayers
K1 Gaudy Night
K1 GAUDY Night (Book)
K1 PRINCESS, The (Poem : Tennyson)
K1 SAYERS, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957
K1 TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
K1 Theology
K1 theology of reading
K1 The Princess
DO 10.1177/0148333116645610