{"product_id":"selected-poems-tennyson","title":"Selected Poems: Tennyson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Into the jaw of Death\u003cbr\u003eInto the mouth of Hell\u003cbr\u003eRode the six hundred'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth century's greatest poets, and show the wide variety of poetic forms he mastered. This selection gives some of Tennyson's most famous works in full, including \u003ci\u003eMaud\u003c\/i\u003e, depicting a tragic love affair, and \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e, a profound tribute to his dearest friend. Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eIdylls of the King\u003c\/i\u003e show a lifelong passion for Arthurian legend, also seen in the dream-like \u003ci\u003eThe Lady of Shalot\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003eMorte d'Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e. Other works respond to contemporary events, such as \u003ci\u003eOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington\u003c\/i\u003e, written in Tennyson's official role as Poet Laureate, or the patriotic \u003ci\u003eCharge of the Light Brigade\u003c\/i\u003e, while \u003ci\u003eLocksley Hall \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a Utopian vision of the future, and the late poem \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Bar\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting meditation on his own mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction, Christopher Ricks discusses aspects of Tennyson's life and works, his revisions of his poems, and his friendship with Arthur Hallam. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading and notes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children. His first important book, \u003ci\u003ePoems, Chiefly Lyrical\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1830, and was not a critical success, but his two volumes of \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e, 1842, which contain some of his finest work, established him as the leading poet of his generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's\u003ci\u003e Lyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton'\u003cbr\u003eT.S. Eliot\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262753984856,"sku":"9780140424430","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780140424430.jpg?v=1769167821","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/selected-poems-tennyson","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}