Authors: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Peter Washington
ISBN-13: 9781400041879, ISBN-10: 1400041872
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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. And though he treasured poetic tradition, his work nevertheless engaged directly with the great issues of his time, from industrialization and the crisis of faith to scientific progress and women’s rights. A master of the short, intense lyric, he can also be sardonic, humorous, voluptuous, earthy, and satirical.
This collection includes, of course, such famous poems as “The Lady of Shalott” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” There are extracts from all the major masterpieces—“Idylls of the King,” “The Princess,” “In Memoriam”—and several complete long poems, such as “Ulysses” and “Demeter and Persephone,” that demonstrate his narrative grace. Finally, there are many of the short lyrical poems, such as “Come into the Garden, Maud” and “Break, Break, Break,” for which he is justly celebrated.
June Bracken and Heather | 11 | |
Love's latest hour is this | 15 | |
To a Lady Sleeping | 16 | |
Whispers | 17 | |
Kate | 18 | |
Mariana | 19 | |
Three Sonnets to a Coquette | 23 | |
Sonnet - 'As when with downcast eyes' | 25 | |
St. Agnes' Eve | 26 | |
Flower in the crannied wall | 27 | |
Leonine Elegiacs | 28 | |
Break, break, break | 29 | |
In the Valley of Cauteretz | 30 | |
Love and Death | 30 | |
Song - 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours' | 31 | |
From The Princess | ||
'As thro' the land at eve we went' | 32 | |
'Sweet and low' | 33 | |
'The splendour falls on castle walls' | 33 | |
'Tears, idle tears' | 34 | |
'O Swallow, Swallow' | 35 | |
'Home they brought her warrior dead' | 36 | |
'Ask me no more' | 37 | |
'Now sleeps the crimson petal' | 38 | |
'Come down, O maid' | 38 | |
Move eastward, happy earth | 40 | |
From The Day-Dream: The Revival | 40 | |
The Kraken | 42 | |
The Owl | 43 | |
The Eagle | 43 | |
The Blackbird | 44 | |
The Dying Swan | 45 | |
From Maud | ||
'O let the solid ground' | 47 | |
'Birds in the high Hall-garden' | 47 | |
'Go not, happy day' | 49 | |
'Come into the garden, Maud' | 50 | |
'O that 'twere possible' | 53 | |
To Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece | 58 | |
Sonnet to W.C. Macready | 59 | |
To J. W. Blakesley | 60 | |
Mine Host | 61 | |
A Character | 62 | |
To J. S. | 64 | |
Frater Ave Atque Vale | 68 | |
Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets | 69 | |
On His Stillborn Son | 71 | |
From The Lotos-Eaters: Choric Song | 72 | |
The Lady of Shalott | 81 | |
Ulysses | 88 | |
Tithonus | 91 | |
The Epic | 94 | |
Morte d'Arthur | 96 | |
St. Simeon Stylites | 108 | |
To Professor Jebb, with the Following Poem | 117 | |
Demeter and Persephone | 118 | |
The Poet's Song | 127 | |
To Virgil | 128 | |
What Thor Said to the Bard Before Dinner | 130 | |
The Golden Year | 131 | |
Merlin and the Gleam | 134 | |
England and America in 1782 | 143 | |
Of old sat Freedom on the heights | 144 | |
Love thou thy land, with love far-brought | 145 | |
The Charge of the Light Brigade | 150 | |
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington | 152 | |
Circumstance | 167 | |
We are Free | 168 | |
On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner | 168 | |
To One Who Ran Down the English | 169 | |
A Quotable Snatch of Ovidian Song | 169 | |
Translations | ||
Battle of Brunanburh | 170 | |
Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse | 176 | |
Metrical Experiments | ||
Semele: A Fragment | 178 | |
Milton - Alcaics | 179 | |
Milton - Hendecasyllabics | 180 | |
On Translations of Homer - Hexameters and Pentameters | 181 | |
Ilion, Ilion | 182 | |
Dialect Poems | ||
Northern Farmer | 183 | |
Owd Roa | 188 | |
On a Mourner | 201 | |
The Ante-chamber | 203 | |
From In Memoriam A.H.H. | 205 | |
Crossing the Bar | 255 |