As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord
Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and
Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by
Christopher Ricks. 'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred' The works in this volume trace nearly sixty
years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth century's
greatest poets, and show the wide variety of poetic forms he
mastered. This selection gives some of Tennyson's most famous works
in full, including Maud, depicting a tragic love affair, and In
Memoriam, a profound tribute to his dearest friend. Excerpts from
Idylls of the King show a lifelong passion for Arthurian legend,
also seen in the dream-like The Lady of Shalot and in Morte
d'Arthur. Other works respond to contemporary events, such as Ode
on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, written in Tennyson's
official role as Poet Laureate, or the patriotic Charge of the
Light Brigade, while Locksley Hall provides a Utopian vision of the
future, and the late poem Crossing the Bar is a haunting meditation
on his own mortality. In his introduction, Christopher Ricks
discusses aspects of Tennyson's life and works, his revisions of
his poems, and his friendship with Arthur Hallam. This edition also
includes a chronology, further reading and notes. Alfred Lord
Tennyson (1809-1892) was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth
of eleven children. 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. If you
enjoyed Selected Poems, you might like William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, also available in
Penguin Classics. 'He had the finest ear of any English poet since
Milton' T.S. Eliot
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