Recollections of the Arabian Nights

"Recollections of the Arabian Nights" is an early poem by Alfred Tennyson, first published in 1830.

Analysis

With this poem should be compared the description of Harun al Rashid’s Garden of Gladness in the story of Nur-al-din Ali and the damsel Anis al Talis in the Thirty-Sixth Night.

According to John Churton Collins, the style appears to have been modelled on Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Lewti, and the influence of Coleridge is very perceptible throughout the poem.

Text

Illustrations

See also

• Arabian Nights
• Orientalism

Notes

References

Sources

• Collins, John Churton, ed. (1900). The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. London: Methuen & Co. pp. xv, 13–17. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Further reading

• John, Brian (1966). "Tennyson's "Recollections of The Arabian Nights" and the Individuation Process". Victorian Poetry. 4 (4): 275–279.
• Peltason, Timothy (1983). "The Embowered Self: "Mariana" and "Recollections of the Arabian Nights"". Victorian Poetry. 21 (4): 335–350.

External links

• Alexander, W. J.; Clawson, William Hall (eds.). "Recollections of the Arabian Nights". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved 22 June 2023.

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