Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."
Reprinted from authoritative standard edition.
A substantial selection of Tennyson's poetry, edited according to the principles of the Penguin English Poets series. This volume concentrates on the period characterized by "Maud"(1855) and "In Memoriam" (1850). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet includes the famous long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the crannied Wall" and more. Also included are excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook."
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Dates
Further Reading
Timbuctoo
The Idealist
From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
Mariana
Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
Song "'A spirit haunts the year's last hours'"
A Character
The Poet's Mind
Nothing Will Die
All Things Will Die
The Dying Swan
The Kraken
From Poems (1832)
The Lady of Shalott
Mariana in the South
Fatima
Oenone
The Palace of Art
The Hesperides
The Lotos-Eaters
'Hark! the dogs howl!'
'This Nature full of hints and mysteries'
'Over the dark world flies the wind'
Oh! that 'twere possible'
From Poems (1842)
The Epic "Morte d'Arthur"
Morte d'Arthur
The Gardener's Daughter
St Simeon Stylites
Ulysses
Locksley Hall
The Two Voices
'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave'
'Break, break, break'
From Poems (1846)
The Golden Year
From The Princess (1847)
'As thro' the land at eve we went'
'Sweet and low, sweet and low'
'The splendour falls on castle walls'
'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean'
'Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea'
'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'
'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'
Lines "'Here often, when a child, I lay reclined')
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)
From Poems (1851)
Edwin Morris
The Eagle
From Maud, and Other Poems (1855)
Maud
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
To the Rev. F.D. Maurice
Will
The Charge of the Light Brigade
From Enoch Arden (1864)
The Grandmother
Tithonus
In the Valley of Cauteretz
On a Mourner
From The Holy Grail and Other Poems (1869)
Northern Farmer, New Style
'Flower in the crannied wall'
Lucretius
From Tiresias and Other Poems (1885)
To E. Fitzgerald
Tiresias
The Ancient Sage
Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets
'Frater Ave atque Vale'
From Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)
Demeter and Persephone
Crossing the Bar
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
John Montague was born in the USA in 1929 but brought up on the family farm in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He has taught at Berkeley and the Univ. of Paris, and currently holds the prestigious Ireland Chair of Poetry. He edited the Faber Book of Irish Verse. He lives in Co. Cork. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
