Tennyson: A Selected Edition

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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.

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This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson's poetry.

Reviews

"Professor Ricks' second edition of the complete Poems of Tennyson is the best edition this century of the best poet of the last century." The Sunday Telegraph "Ricks's magnificent Tennyson." Professor Adrian Poole, Cambridge University "In his line he is the best in the business and his achievement in his edition of Tennyson is just about as good as you can get." Professor Frank Kermode

Author description

Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He is also a prolific author.

Table of contents

Contents Note by the General Editor x Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition xii Preface to the Complete Edition xiv Acknowledgements xxv Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson's Life and Chief Publications xxvii Abbreviations xxxii POEMS 73 Mariana 78 Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind 86 Song [A spirit haunts the year's last hours] 88 A Character 97 The Dying Swan 113 The Kraken 159 The Lady of Shalott 160 Mariana in the South 163 Fatima 164 none 166 To . With the Following Poem 167 The Palace of Art 170 The Lotos-Eaters 173 A Dream of Fair Women 183 To J.S. 199 The Eagle 205 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere 209 The Two Voices 210 St Simeon Stylites 216 On a Mourner 217 Ulysses 218 Tithon [Appx I] 225 The Epic 226 Morte d'Arthur 227 'Oh! that 'twere possible' [Appx I] 228 'Break, break, break' 234 Sir Galahad 241 The Day-Dream Prologue The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure Moral L'Envoi Epilogue 261 'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave' 265 A Farewell 271 Locksley Hall 274 Audley Court 275 Edwin Morris 276 The Golden Year 277 The Vision of Sin 286 The Princess 296 In Memoriam A. H. H. 299 To the Queen 301 To E. L., on His Travels in Greece 309 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 310 Will 311 The Daisy 312 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice 315 The Charge of the Light Brigade 316 Maud 324 Tithonus 326 In the Valley of Cauteretz 330 Enoch Arden 334 Hendecasyllabics 344 Northern Farmer, New style 349 'Flower in the crannied wall' 357 In the Garden at Swainston&nbBattle of Brunanburh 377 Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets 384 To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson 385 'Frater Ave atque Vale' 394 To Virgil 398 To E. FitzGerald 400 The Dead Prophet 417 Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 423 To Ulysses 425 To Mary Boyle 426 Far Far Away 427 To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava 430 Parnassus 434 The Roses on the Terrace 450 June Bracken and Heather 462 Crossing the Bar IDYLLS OF THE KING 463 Dedication 464 The Coming of Arthur The Round Table: 465 Gareth and Lynette 466 The Marriage of Geraint 467 Geraint and Enid 468 Balin and Balan 469 Merlin and Vivien 470 Lancelot and Elaine 471 The Holy Grail 472 Pelleas and Ettarre 473 The Last Tournament 474 Guinevere 475 The Passing of Arthur 476 To the Queen APPENDICES I. Alternative Drafts The Princess In Memoriam A. H. H. To the Queen [1851] Maud: 'Oh! that 'twere possible' Tithonus: Tithon Idylls of the King II. Contents pages of the Complete Edition Index of Titles and First Lines