Selected Poems: Tennyson

A new edition of the finest poems by TennysonTennyson'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 Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.

“[Tennyson] had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.”

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-T. S. Eliot

Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. His first important book, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, was published in 1830, and was not a critical success, but his two volumes of Poems, 1842, which contain some of his finest work, established him as the leading poet of his generation. T. S. Eliot wrote of Tennyson- 'He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets- abundance, variety and complete competence. He had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.' After a short illness Tennyson died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.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).

This gorgeous new collection gathers into one concise volume the finest work by Queen Victoriaas favorite poet. Whether steeped in sensuous melancholy, as in aMaud, a or chivalric, heroic, and allegorical, as in aMorte DaArthur, a Tennysonas poetry epitomizes the Victorian age for which he became a spokesperson when named Poet Laureate of England in 1850.

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