Maud Named Critics

• Named Critics: -

  Kincaid

  Pedlar

  Ricks

  O'Neil

  Beasley

  Shires
• Kincaid - Maud's brother represents everything vile: energy, sexual power, male animalism.
• Kincaid - ‘In Maud, love does not release the narrator from self but imprisons him in it.’
• Pedlar - (The persona) ‘seeks his salvation in the typically masculine pursuit of war.’
• Ricks - ‘Many critics consider the persona to be psychopathic.’
• O'Neil‘ - Maud is a mosaic-like rendering of the first forty five years of Tennyson’s life.’
• Beasley - The persona ‘is endowed with a highly overwrought and macabre imagination, through which prism his memories, his emotions, his perceptions are refracted.’
• Shires - The poem ‘erases the human, real and feminine qualities of the loved one, Maud, while elevating the male sphere of war as a refuge and salvation.’