A century ago Tennyson had begun to be dismissed as a poet whose work embodied everything the modern world was looking to leave behind. He still seems to readers to embody the substance of the Victorian era more fully than any other poet-but nowadays that is again counted in his favour. Critics cont[...]
One of the great Victorians poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems.[...]
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid mess[...]
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 Shalot" and "Morte d'Arthur".[...]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria's favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries. [...]
Drawn from the author's own "The Poems of Tennyson", this book includes in full all four of Tennyson's long poems - "The Princess", "In Memoriam", "Maud", and "Idylls of the King" - as well as other great poems including "Mariana", "The Lady of Shalott", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses" and "Tithonus". I[...]
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems, and letters and journal entries - to give the[...]
The authoritative text is again that of the Eversley Edition of Tennyson s Works, published in 1901 8, which is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations. Criticism contains thirteen essays- seven of which are new to the Second Edition among them examples of formal (Sarah Gates), contextual (W[...]
The Lady of Shalott is the third book in Visions in Poetry, an award-winning series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. Tennyson's beautiful and enigmatic poem of unrequited love, set in Arthurian England, has enthralled artists for well o[...]
Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem "Morte d'Arthur" he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. "Idylls of the King" traces the story of Arthur's rule[...]
Treasury of verse by great Victorian poet includes long narrative poem, "Enoch Arden, plus many other important pieces: "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," selections from "The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook," more. Authoritative edition.
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In this volume, photographer Joyce Tenneson presents ethereal portraits of the human body, expanding on past themes, working increasingly with combined imagery, and creating multi-panel images which incorporate architectural and sculptural details.[...]
Alfred Tennyson's hugely influential 1850 elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam articulates the quintessential Victorian emotions of mourning and troubled faith.[...]
'Idylls of the King' form an action-packed fantasy story cycle covering the rise and fall of Camelot and the exploits of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.[...]