Victorian poetry Archives

Creativity and Kraken Beyond Time: Tennyson and Florence + the Machine

September 14, 2026September 15, 2026

text by Dorota Osińska When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two centuries later, Florence + the Machine released ‘Kraken’ (Everybody Scream, 2025), a song that (consciously or not) reanimates this mythic beast […]

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Ewa Młynarczyk: The Arthurian Legend from the Victorian perspective in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (2024)

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025

text by Grażyna Bystydzieńska The book is based on Ewa’s MA dissertation written under my supervision in 2008. Ewa suggested the topic of her dissertation herself as she was interested in adaptation of mythology and legends by the Victorian poets and she wanted to show how the new cultural context of a different epoch changed […]

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