{"product_id":"alfred-lord-tennyson-selected-poems-9780140424430","title":"Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand 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\u003e Idylls 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\u003e Charge of the Light Brigade\u003c\/i\u003e, while \u003ci\u003eLocksley Hall\u003c\/i\u003e provides 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks. In his introduction, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred Lord Tennyson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. His first important book, \u003ci\u003e Poems, 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. T. S. Eliot wrote of Tennyson: 'He has three qualities which are seldom found together except in the greatest poets: abundance, variety and complete competence. He had the finest ear of any English poet since Milton.' After a short illness Tennyson died in 1892 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Christopher Ricks\u003c\/b\u003e is Warren Professor of the Humanities, and Co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMilton's Grand Style\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eTennyson \u003c\/i\u003e(second edition, 1989). He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of Tennyson\u003c\/i\u003e (second edition, 1987), \u003ci\u003eThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eA. E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eInventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917\u003c\/i\u003e by T. S. Eliot (1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Book of English Verse\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of James Henry\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50902199042322,"sku":"9780140424430","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a0ed68d-0124-4498-87e8-a7e481defbc2.jpg?v=1738449266","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alfred-lord-tennyson-selected-poems-9780140424430","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}