Tennyson: Poems Edited by Peter Washington

Name: Tennyson: Poems Edited by Peter Washington
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ISBN: 9781400041879

ISBN-10: 1400041872

ISBN-13: 9781400041879

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alfred Tennyson, Peter Washington

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a more complex writer than his status as Queen Victoria’s favorite poet might suggest. Though capable of rendering rapture and delight in the most exquisite verse, in another mode Tennyson is brother in spirit to Poe and to Baudelaire, the author of dark, passionate reveries. And though he treasured poetic tradition, his work nevertheless engaged directly with the great issues of his time, from industrialization and the crisis of faith to scientific progress and women’s rights. A master of the short, intense lyric, he can also be sardonic, humorous, voluptuous, earthy, and satirical. This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as “The Lady of…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/17/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.50" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Peter Washington has edited several Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, Friendship Poems, Love Letters, and The Roman Poets.



June Bracken and Heather


Love's latest hour is this


To a Lady Sleeping


Whispers


Kate


Mariana


Three Sonnets to a Coquette


Sonnet - 'As when with downcast eyes'


St. Agnes' Eve


Flower in the crannied wall


Leonine Elegiacs


Break, break, break


In the Valley of Cauteretz


Love and Death


Song - 'A spirit haunts the year's last hours'


From The Princess


'As thro' the land at eve we went'


'Sweet and low'


'The splendour falls on castle walls'


'Tears, idle tears'


'O Swallow, Swallow'


'Home they brought her warrior dead'


'Ask me no more'


'Now sleeps the crimson petal'


'Come down, O maid'


Move eastward, happy earth


From The Day-Dream: The Revival


The Kraken


The Owl


The Eagle


The Blackbird


The Dying Swan


From Maud


'O let the solid ground'


'Birds in the high Hall-garden'


'Go not, happy day'


'Come into the garden, Maud'


'O that 'twere possible'


To Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece


Sonnet to W.C. Macready


To J. W. Blakesley


Mine Host


A Character


To J. S.


Frater Ave Atque Vale


Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets


On His Stillborn Son


From The Lotos-Eaters: Choric Song


The Lady of Shalott


Ulysses


Tithonus


The Epic


Morte d'Arthur


St. Simeon Stylites


To Professor Jebb, with the Following Poem


Demeter and Persephone


The Poet's Song


To Virgil


What Thor Said to the Bard Before Dinner


The Golden Year


Merlin and the Gleam


England and America in 1782


Of old sat Freedom on the heights


Love thou thy land, with love far-brought


The Charge of the Light Brigade


Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington


Circumstance


We are Free


On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner


To One Who Ran Down the English


A Quotable Snatch of Ovidian Song


Translations


Battle of Brunanburh


Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse


Metrical Experiments


Semele: A Fragment


Milton - Alcaics


Milton - Hendecasyllabics


On Translations of Homer - Hexameters and Pentameters


Ilion, Ilion


Dialect Poems


Northern Farmer


Owd Roa


On a Mourner


The Ante-chamber


From In Memoriam A.H.H.


Crossing the Bar