Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems still have relevance. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
This volume offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Tennyson's poetry available for the serious student.
This edition, previously published in the Oxford Authors series, includes all Tennyson's classic poems and The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden in full, as well as several of the... Læs mere
'Next to the Bible, In Memoriam is my comfort.' Queen Victoria's reliance, after the death of Prince Albert, on Tennyson's 1850 elegy for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam - who died in Vienna... Læs mere
First published in 1932, this book contains a selection of Tennyson's poetry edited by renowned English author, poet and classicist Frank Laurence Lucas (1894–1967). A... Læs mere