Bøker av Alfred Tennyson

Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem, tracing the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable departure.

This edition, previously published in the Oxford Authors series, includes all Tennyson's classic poems and The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden in full, as well as several of the Idylls of the King. It includes letters and extracts from Hallam Tennyson's Memoir of his father.

In Memoriam

Tennyson's correspondence during the last 20 years of his life is arranged in this volume. It describes his becoming a peer, and the publication of several of his dramas and letters to and from personalities of the day, such as Edward Fitzgerald, Gladstone and Browning.

Although Tennyson has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems still have relevance. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages.