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Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages. Much given to melancholy and feelings of aching desolation, Tennyson's verse also carries clear messages of hope: 'Ring out the old, ring in the new', and 'Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'.
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Although Tennyson had already published a collection of poetry in 1827 in conjunction with his elder brothers, this volume, the first exclusively of his own poems and no longer consisting of pastiche of earlier poets like Milton, Pope and Byron, was a career landmark. Read the first page
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Although Tennyson had already published a collection of poetry in 1827 in conjunction with his elder brothers, this volume, the first exclusively of his own poems and no longer consisting of pastiche of earlier poets like Milton, Pope and Byron, was a career landmark. Read the first page
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Very Large Collection of Tennyson,
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This review is from: The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
This is a large and I think exhaustive anthology of the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson. It includes all the work you would expect in a collection from Tennyson. I have to admit it took some getting through as there is a lot of poetry on show here (over 600 pages), having said that it covers over 50 years of the author's work.
Tennyson is a very imaginative if sometimes a bit morbid poet but once you get into it, it become very enjoyable and takes you into another world.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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By Warming Sceptic UK "CPUK" (Yorkshire UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
On a recent expedition to a seldom visited corner of my bookshelves, I came across an ancient edition of Tennyson's poems, undated, since the flyleaf had been eaten by mice; and from the condition of the rest of the book, an ornate American edition, almost unread. The whole volume was a triumph of style over substance (or at least utility), ornate binding, small florid typeface, crammed into double columns on each page. No guidance or foreword, only indices of titles and first lines!
What a contast in the modern Wordsworth edition, where even the poem, printed facing the title page("Crossing the Bar") has a brief note placing it in context! As a social historian manque, and someone who cannot appreciate a work of art without a context, I found this book a useful revelation. The introduction by Karen Hodder, is informed and comprehensive, and accessible without talking down to the reader. It does not shirk from using the occasional long word, but it is not more demanding than the works it introduces. Both she, and the publisher are to be congratulated on eschewing the blight of the academic book - the footnote, a distraction in small print, especially when longer than the main text, and spilling across pages, in favour of "Headnotes", which naturally are read before the accompanying poem. My prayer is that the notes are not so good that they will make reading the actual poems superfluous to todays spoon-fed scholar of short attention span! There is a story told about Tennyson, who was sitting at a dinner party, next to a young lady, who eagerly anicipated an evening of witty repartee from the literary lion. She was, alas, disappointed. The poet spoke only twice - once to complain to his companion "Madam, your stays creak" (at the soup course); and over the desert "Madam, I apologise, it is not your stays, it is my braces"! I am glad to say that none of Ms Hodder's (literary) apparatus creaks!
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A GENUINELY QUESTIONING POET,
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This review is from: The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
Karen Hodder reveals to us the man behind the poetry,by introducing the ten chronlogical sections of this book with a brief,but helpful headnote to each.This complements the informed introduction to this prolific writer,so aptly described as 'a genuinely questioning poet'.Superb value and worthy of its place on the bookshelf of all poetic afficionados.
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