by Alfred Tennyson · Gramercy · tapa dura · ISBN 9780517093269
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«Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems» is a poetry anthology by Alfred Tennyson, published by Gramercy in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
A volume bringing together a selected sample of Alfred Tennyson's lyric poetry, one of the great voices of nineteenth-century English poetry. It includes a brief biographical sketch of the author and several of his most representative compositions, offering an accessible journey through his work.
For those wishing to begin with Victorian poetry, this anthology offers a representative selection and a brief sketch of the author.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Some critics described Tennyson as overly sentimental. However, his poems proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
