Guide to the Year's Work: General Materials

Gray then invokes tourism to explain the unsettling indifference that Don Juan engenders in its readers: mobility produces obliviousness, a phenomenon reflected in the style and plot of Byron's epic and transmitted to the audience thereby, in Memoriam is shown to be structured by Tennyson's rejection of poetic aspirations and a "refusal to advance" (p. 92), an aspect of the poem modeled by its view of Christmas as a time of inescapable nostalgia and disappointment. also figure in iconographie tradition to represent the release of the soul after death, which might allude to Enoch's soul hovering above Philip's property. The luxe edition obviously participated in the commodity culture regnant at Enoch's funeral, and Kooistra also traces the degree to which the disruption of text by inserted illustrations plays into the superseding of things heard by things seen in the poem, as when Enoch, having heard of Annie's marriage, undergoes traumatic erasure only when he sees his replacement within the family circle.