The Major Works

Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters of the music and mood of poetry. This edition selects extensively from Tennysons entire career, beginning with his striking juvenilia, through his career as Poet Laureate and the powerful poetry he wrote in his ninth decade. It contains such classics as The Lady of Shalott, Morte dArthur, Break, Break, Break, Locksley Hall, Ulysses, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Tears, Idle Tears. It also includes in its entirety Tennysons quasi-feminist epic The Princess, as well as the whole of In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden, and several of the Idylls of the King. The poems are augmented with a broad selection from Tennysons letters, as well as relevant passages from his son Hallam Tennysons Memoir of his father, where Tennyson talks widely about his own poetry and the writing of others.