
Tennyson
A Selected Edition
Christopher Ricks(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 18. October 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
1072 pages
978-1-4058-3282-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 57 mm
Weight
1319 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4058-3282-3 (9781405832823)
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Person
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.
Content
Note by the General Editor Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition Preface to the Complete Edition Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson's Life and Chief Publications Abbreviations POEMS Mariana; Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind; Song [A spirit haunts the year's last hours]; A Character; The Dying Swan; The Kraken; The Lady of Shalott; Mariana in the South; Fatima; Oenone; To -. With the Following Poem; The Palace of Art; The Lotos-Eaters; A Dream of Fair Women; To J.S.; The Eagle; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; The Two Voices; St Simeon Stylites; On a Mourner; Ulysses; Tithon; The Epic; Morte d'Arthur; 'Oh! that 'twere possible'; 'Break, break, break'; Sir Galahad; The Day-Dream; 'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave'; A Farewell; Locksley Hall; Audley Court; Edwin Morris; The Golden Year; The Vision of Sin; The Princess; In Memoriam A. H. H.; To the Queen; To E. L., on His Travels in Greece; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Will; The Daisy; To the Rev. F. D. Maurice; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Maud; Tithonus; In the Valley of Cauteretz; Enoch Arden; Hendecasyllabics; Northern Farmer, New style; 'Flower in the crannied wall'; In the Garden at Swainston; Battle of Brunanburh; Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets; To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson; 'Frater Ave atque Vale'; To Virgil; To E. FitzGerald; The Dead Prophet; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; To Ulysses; To Mary Boyle; Far - Far - Away; To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava; Parnassus; The Roses on the Terrace; June Bracken and Heather; Crossing the Bar IDYLLS OF THE KING Dedication; The Coming of Arthur; Gareth and Lynette; The Marriage of Geraint; Geraint and Enid; Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Lancelot and Elaine; The Holy Grail; Pelleas and Ettarre; The Last Tournament; Guinevere; The Passing of Arthur; To the Queen Appendices Index of Titles and First Lines