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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson's poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems, and letters and journal entries - to give the essence of his work and thinking. 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 Tennyson's 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 d'Arthur', Break, Break, Break', 'Locksley Hall', 'Ulysses', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', and 'Tears, Idle Tears'. It also includes in its entirety Tennyson's 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 Tennyson's letters, as well as relevant passages from his son Hallam Tennyson's Memoir of his father, where Tennyson talks widely about his own poetry and the writing of others.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Well presented with clear typeface. Courtship letters are a bonus but some rather obvious shorter poems were omitted in favour of out of context extracts from longer ones.
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To state the obvious, an English-language classic.
15 Sep 2009
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How does one, in 2009, write a real review of the collected major works of Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson? Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in the high Victorian era, was probably the defining English-language poet of his era (Robert Browning being probably his only real rival, and none of Browning's writings are as widely-known today as "The Lady of Shalott" or "Ulysses"). Moreover, he is one of the most proficient technicians of English language poetry in any era, matched only by a handful of others (Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Keats, the aforementioned Browning). Anything less than five stars would be tantamount to heresy.
The book collects the contents in chronological order, either grouped under publication headings (such as the 1832 and 1842 volumes identically titled "Poems") or time periods ("Poems from the 1870s and 1880s"). Included in its entirety is his lengthy opus "In Memorium A.H.H.", his salute to his deceased would-be-brother-in-law Arthur Hallam (whose surname would later be repurposed as the first name of Tennyson's own son). It should be noted that Tennyson's longest poetical work, "The Idylls of the King", is not included here in its entirety, presumably because it's long enough to support its own separate publication, and this is a fairly big volume as it is. Two sections, 'Merlin and Vivien' and 'The Holy Grail', are included as samples. Other especially large works included in their entirety are "Maud" and "The Princess". As well, the book includes a selection of Tennyson's personal correspondence relating to his work (such as a letter to Princess Alice explaining the dedication of a new edition of "The Idylls of the King" to her deceased father Albert, the Prince-consort).
There's not much more to write concisely about literary contents, other than that everyone should be encouraged to read the works of one of the greats of the Victorian period. "Ulysses", Tennyson's most widely-anthologized and widely-taught poem, remains my favourite, one of the poems that got me interested in the genre. It retains an irresistible interpretational ambiguity between the inspiring language and the underlying sadness of what Ulysses has become (after a lifetime spent moving Heaven and Earth to get home to his family, all he wants to do is leave for more adventures, dismissing his "aged wife" in a single line).
The Oxford Classics edition is as good a collection of Tennyson's major writing as one is likely to find.
The book collects the contents in chronological order, either grouped under publication headings (such as the 1832 and 1842 volumes identically titled "Poems") or time periods ("Poems from the 1870s and 1880s"). Included in its entirety is his lengthy opus "In Memorium A.H.H.", his salute to his deceased would-be-brother-in-law Arthur Hallam (whose surname would later be repurposed as the first name of Tennyson's own son). It should be noted that Tennyson's longest poetical work, "The Idylls of the King", is not included here in its entirety, presumably because it's long enough to support its own separate publication, and this is a fairly big volume as it is. Two sections, 'Merlin and Vivien' and 'The Holy Grail', are included as samples. Other especially large works included in their entirety are "Maud" and "The Princess". As well, the book includes a selection of Tennyson's personal correspondence relating to his work (such as a letter to Princess Alice explaining the dedication of a new edition of "The Idylls of the King" to her deceased father Albert, the Prince-consort).
There's not much more to write concisely about literary contents, other than that everyone should be encouraged to read the works of one of the greats of the Victorian period. "Ulysses", Tennyson's most widely-anthologized and widely-taught poem, remains my favourite, one of the poems that got me interested in the genre. It retains an irresistible interpretational ambiguity between the inspiring language and the underlying sadness of what Ulysses has become (after a lifetime spent moving Heaven and Earth to get home to his family, all he wants to do is leave for more adventures, dismissing his "aged wife" in a single line).
The Oxford Classics edition is as good a collection of Tennyson's major writing as one is likely to find.
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