![]() ![]() ![]() Tennysons Poetry, A Norton Critical Edition, Alfred Tennyson. Internally, firmly bound.Pages are bright and generally clean, with just a few instances of foxing. This volume offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Tennysons poetry available. Externally, smart, with just some rubbing and sunning to the spines. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. In green morocco bindings with gilt detailing. With vignette title pages to five volumes. The story on which it was based was provided to Tennyson by Thomas Woolner. "Enoch Arden" is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate. The ban was reportedly commissioned due to suggestive themes and supposedly biased opinions toward the current government opposition, which were later confirmed false by Tennyson, while also expressing his own judgement on the whole event as 'a bit of a joke'. It was considered a disgrace to society in the early days of its release and was banned for eight and a half years, until popular demand made it available to read once more. I love Victorian poetry in general anyway, and this collected all of one of the periods most prolific writers best poems in one. I was surprised at just how many poems in this collection I have read before without associating them with him. The poem 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is an elegy for his Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died of cerebral haemorrhage at the age of twenty-two years, in Vienna in 1833. According to Britannica, the poem detailed a British cavalry charge against Russia troops that failed during the Crimean War. One of his most well-known poems was The Charge of the Light Brigade, which can be found on Poetry Foundation. Among the "other poems" was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months before. Most people have heard of Tennyson, even if they have not read him. Not all of Tennyson’s work was well-received when he was alive, but his poetry brought him much success. Containing: The Holy Grail and Other Poems Gareth and Lynette Enoch Arden Idylls of the King The Princess: A Medley In Memoriam Maud and Other Poems Maud and Other Poems was Alfred, Lord Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850, published in 1855. A uniformly-bound collection of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. ![]()
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