Alfred, Lord Tennyson
An Anthology

First published in 1932, this book contains a selection of Tennyson's poetry edited by renowned English author Frank Laurence Lucas.

Alfred Tennyson (Author), F. L. Lucas (Edited by)

9781107682832, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

238 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.26 kg

Frank Laurence Lucas (1894–1967) was a renowned English author, poet and classicist, often remembered for his polemical attacks on key modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot, as well as his meticulous scholarship in the production of texts such as the four-volume Complete Works of John Webster. First published in 1932, this book contains a selection of Tennyson's poetry edited by Lucas. A detailed editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Tennyson and Lucas.

Prefatory note
Introduction
The devil and the lady
Claribel
Supposed confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind
Mariana
To -
Ode to memory
Song
A character
The dying swan
A dirge
Lisette
Milton's mulberry
The lady of Shalott
The two voices
The miller's daughter
Fatima
Oenone
The palace of art
The May queen
The lotos-eaters
A dream of fair women
To J. S.
On a mourner
'Love thou thy land'
The lover's tale
Sonnet
Morte d'Arthur
The gardener's daughter
Love and duty
Ulysses
Tithonus
Godiva
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
A farewell
The eagle
'Come not, when I am dead'
The vision of sin
To E. L. on his travels in Greece
'Break, break, break...'
The princess, a medley
In memoriam A. H. H.
Maud, a monodrama
The daisy
To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
In the valley of Cauteretz
In the garden at Swainston
Requiescat
'Flower in the crannied wall'
Specimen of a translation of the Iliad in blank verse
Enoch Arden
Aylmer's field
Lucretius
Idylls of the King: The coming of Arthur
Gareth and Lynette
Geraint and Enid
Merlin and Vivien
Lancelot and Elaine
The holy grail
Pelleas and Ettarre
The last tournament
Guinevere
The passing of Arthur
The revenge
The voyage of Maeldune
Tiresias
Locksley Hall sixty years after
To Virgul
'Frater ave atque vale'
The progress of spring
Merlin and the gleam
June bracken and heather
St Telemachus
Crossing the bar.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]