SOURCE: "Nostalgic Narcissism in Comic and Tragic Perspectives: Elizabeth Bowen's Two Fictional Reworkings of a Tennyson Lyric," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter, 1996, pp. 59-68.
In the following essay, Bidney examines the Tennysonian context of "Tears, Idle Tears" and "The Happy Autumn Fields," deconstructing the psychological tensions of their representations of nostalgic melancholy.
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