Selected Poems: Tennyson
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2007
Summary
Tennyson’s Finest: A Collection of Selected Poems
Tennyson’s poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalott and Morte d’Arthur.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140424430 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140424431 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir Christopher Ricks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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[Tennyson] had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.
”[Tennyson] had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.” -T. S. Eliot
About The Author
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities, and Co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. He is the author of Milton’s Grand Style (1963), Tennyson (second edition, 1989). He is also the editor of The Poems of Tennyson (second edition, 1987), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), A. E. Housman- Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988), Inventions of the March Hare- Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (1996), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), and Selected Poems of James Henry (2002).
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