Tennyson: A Selected Edition (re-issue)

Contents

Note by the General Editor x

Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition xii

Preface to the Complete Edition xiv

Acknowledgements xxv

Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Chief Publications xxvii

Abbreviations xxxii

POEMS

73 Mariana

78 Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind

86 Song [A spirit haunts the year’s last hours]

88 A Character

97 The Dying Swan

113 The Kraken

159 The Lady of Shalott

160 Mariana in the South

163 Fatima

164 Œnone

166 To –. With the Following Poem

167 The Palace of Art

170 The Lotos-Eaters

173 A Dream of Fair Women

183 To J.S.

199 The Eagle

205 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere

209 The Two Voices

210 St Simeon Stylites

216 On a Mourner

217 Ulysses

218 Tithon [Appx I]

225 The Epic

226 Morte d’Arthur

227 ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’ [Appx I]

228 ‘Break, break, break’

234 Sir Galahad

241 The Day-Dream

Prologue

The Sleeping Palace

The Sleeping Beauty

The Arrival

The Revival

The Departure

Moral

L’Envoi

Epilogue

261 ‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave’

265 A Farewell

271 Locksley Hall

274 Audley Court

275 Edwin Morris

276 The Golden Year

277 The Vision of Sin

286 The Princess

296 In Memoriam A. H. H.

299 To the Queen

301 To E. L., on His Travels in Greece

309 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington

310 Will

311 The Daisy

312 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice

315 The Charge of the Light Brigade

316 Maud

324 Tithonus

326 In the Valley of Cauteretz

330 Enoch Arden

334 Hendecasyllabics

344 Northern Farmer, New style

349 ‘Flower in the crannied wall’

357 In the Garden at Swainston&nbBattle of Brunanburh

377 Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets

384 To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson

385 ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’

394 To Virgil

398 To E. FitzGerald

400 The Dead Prophet

417 Locksley Hall Sixty Years After

423 To Ulysses

425 To Mary Boyle

426 Far – Far – Away

427 To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava

430 Parnassus

434 The Roses on the Terrace

450 June Bracken and Heather

462 Crossing the Bar

IDYLLS OF THE KING

463 Dedication

464 The Coming of Arthur

The Round Table:

465 Gareth and Lynette

466 The Marriage of Geraint

467 Geraint and Enid

468 Balin and Balan

469 Merlin and Vivien

470 Lancelot and Elaine

471 The Holy Grail

472 Pelleas and Ettarre

473 The Last Tournament

474 Guinevere

475 The Passing of Arthur

476 To the Queen

APPENDICES

I. Alternative Drafts

The Princess

In Memoriam A. H. H.

To the Queen [1851]

Maud: ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’

Tithonus: Tithon

Idylls of the King

II. Contents pages of the Complete Edition

Index of Titles and First Lines

• Best available scholarly edition of Tennyson at a price suited to a student budget
• Includes in full all four of Tennyson's long poems -The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King - as well as all the great poems including Mariana, The Lady of Shalott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses and Tithonus
• Retains all the headnotes and footnotes from the complete edition, which shed valuable light on context and composition and which illuminate the wealth of allusion, classical and other, that Tennyson brought to bear within his poetry

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