The Alfred Lord Tennyson Page
( 1809-1892 )
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
Major Works
There are two separate Selected Poems available from Penguin as well as an Idylls of the King. There is also an excellent Tennyson's Poetry in a Norton Critical Edition edited by Robert W. Hill, Jr., 1971.
Poems by Two Brothers ( 1827 ). Largely written by Alfred and Charles Tennyson.
Poems Chiefly Lyrical ( 1830 ).
Poems ( 1833 ). Lady of Shalott On Line
Poems ( 1842 ). Included poems from the two preceding collections.
The Princess ( 1847; 1850 ).
In Memoriam A. H. H. ( 1850; 1851 ). Long elegiac poem in which Tennyson struggles with the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. The scar of Hallam's death can be seen in not a few of Tennyson's poems. The Norton Critical In Memoriam ( 1973) was edited by Robert H. Ross.
Maud and Other Poems ( 1855 ).
Idylls of the King ( 1859; enlarged in 1869 and 1889 ). Tennyson's treatment of the Arthurian stories. "The Coming of Arthur" On Line
Enoch Arden ( 1864 ).
Tiresias and Other Poems ( 1885 ).
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After ( 1886 ).
Demeter and Other Poems ( 1889 ).
The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson. Edited by W. J. Rolfe. Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
The Poems of Tennyson. Three Volumes. Edited by Christopher B. Ricks. California, 1987.
About Tennyson
Jerome H. Buckley, Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet. Harvard, 1960.
Christopher B. Ricks, Tennyson. California, 1989.
Charles Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson. Macmillan, 1949.
Hallam Tennyson, Tennyson: A Memoir. Macmillan, 1897.
Alfred Lord Tennyson from The Victorian Web.
A Tennyson Page. Timeline, works.
Tennyson Criticism from Internet Public Library.
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