ABSTRACT

This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. 

The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, and Tithonus through Tennyson's middle life and the Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, to his last years and Crossing the Bar.

 

part |666 pages

The Poems

chapter 73|4 pages

Mariana

chapter 88|2 pages

A Character

chapter 97|2 pages

The Dying Swan

chapter 113|2 pages

The Kraken

chapter 159|9 pages

The Lady of Shalott

chapter 160|6 pages

Mariana in the South

chapter 163|3 pages

Fatima

chapter 164|14 pages

Œnone

chapter 167|20 pages

The Palace of Art

chapter 170|8 pages

The Lotos-Eaters

chapter 173|13 pages

A Dream of Fair Women

chapter 183|4 pages

To J.S.

chapter 199|1 pages

The Eagle

chapter 205|4 pages

Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

chapter 209|24 pages

The Two Voices

chapter 210|11 pages

St Simeon Stylites

chapter 216|3 pages

On a Mourner

chapter 217|8 pages

Ulysses

chapter 225|3 pages

The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]

chapter 226|16 pages

Morte d'Arthur

chapter 228|1 pages

‘Break, break, break'

chapter 234|4 pages

Sir Galahad

chapter 241|12 pages

The Day-Dream

chapter 261|2 pages

‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave'

chapter 265|2 pages

A Farewell

chapter 271|11 pages

Locksley Hall

chapter 274|5 pages

Audley Court

chapter 275|9 pages

Edwin Morris

or, The Lake

chapter 276|5 pages

The Golden Year

chapter 277|9 pages

The Vision of Sin

chapter 286|112 pages

The Princess

A Medley

chapter 296|154 pages

In Memoriam A. H. H.

Obiit MDCCCXXXIII

chapter 299|2 pages

To the Queen

chapter 301|2 pages

To E.L., on His Travels in Greece

chapter 309|11 pages

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

Published in 1852

chapter 310|2 pages

Will

chapter 311|4 pages

The Daisy

Written at Edinburgh

chapter 312|4 pages

To the Rev. F. D. Maurice

chapter 315|4 pages

The Charge of the Light Brigade

chapter 316|72 pages

Maud

A monodrama

chapter 324|8 pages

Tithonus

chapter 326|2 pages

In the Valley of Cauteretz

chapter 330|25 pages

Enoch Arden

chapter 334|2 pages

Hendecasyllabics

chapter 344|3 pages

Northern Farmer

New Style

chapter 349|1 pages

‘Flower in the crannied wall'

chapter 357|1 pages

In the Garden at Swainston

chapter 366|5 pages

Battle of Brunanburh

chapter 377|2 pages

Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets

Midnight, June 30, 1879

chapter 384|1 pages

To Alfred Tennyson

My Grandson

chapter 385|2 pages

‘Frater Ave atque Vale'

chapter 394|3 pages

To Virgil

Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death

chapter 398|5 pages

To E. FitzGerald

chapter 400|6 pages

The Dead Prophet

chapter 417|12 pages

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

chapter 423|4 pages

To Ulysses

chapter 425|4 pages

To Mary Boyle

With the Following Poem [The Progress of Spring]

chapter 426|2 pages

Far — Far — Away

(For Music)

chapter 427|3 pages

To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava

chapter 430|2 pages

Parnassus

chapter 434|1 pages

The Roses on the Terrace

chapter 450|1 pages

June Bracken and Heather

To —

chapter 462|2 pages

Crossing the Bar

part 2|301 pages

Idylls of the King

chapter 463|3 pages

Dedication

chapter 464|17 pages

The Coming of Arthur

chapter 465|43 pages

Gareth and Lynette

chapter 466|27 pages

The Marriage of Geraint

chapter 467|27 pages

Geraint and Enid

chapter 468|18 pages

Balin and Balan

chapter 469|30 pages

Merlin and Vivien

chapter 470|41 pages

Lancelot and Elaine

chapter 471|28 pages

The Holy Grail

chapter 472|18 pages

Pelleas and Ettarre

chapter 473|22 pages

The Last Tournament

chapter 474|19 pages

Guinevere

chapter 475|15 pages

The Passing of Arthur

chapter 476|3 pages

To the Queen