Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot Thinking Loss [Hardcover]

Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.Introduction: Traumatized Trust Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust: Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude 'Wound' in the 'Living Soul': Tennyson's In Memoriam Castrated Referentiality: Eliot's The Waste Land Epilogue: 'The Tone We Trusted Most': James Merrill's The Book of EphraimTHOMAS J. BRENNAN Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, USA.