The Early Poems of Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson

• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Year: 2022
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9788728200001
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Dive into Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson's 'The Early Poems' collection with this fantastic anthology. Featuring his Chancellor's Gold Medal awarded 'Timbuktu' and the sentimental 'Mariana' poems, the collection spans medievalism and powerful visual imagery, ideal for poetry, history and English language fanatics looking to uncover the source of many famous quotes. Perfect for lovers of Radio 4's 'Great Lives' podcast.

Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Introduction
• Early Poems
• Claribel
• Lilian
• Isabel
• Mariana
• To——
• Madeline
• Song—The Owl
• Second Song—To the Same
• Recollections of the Arabian Nights
• Ode to Memory
• Song
• Adeline
• A Character
• The Poet
• The Poet’s Mind
• The Sea Fairies
• The Deserted House
• The Dying Swan
• A Dirge
• Love and Death
• The Ballad of Oriana
• Circumstance
• The Merman
• The Mermaid
• Sonnet to J. M. K.
• The Lady of Shalott
• Mariana in the South
• Eleänore
• The Miller’s Daughter
• Fatima
• Œnone
• The Sisters
• To——
• The Palace of Art
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere
• The May Queen
• New Year’s Eve
• Conclusion
• The Lotos Eaters
• Choric Song
• A Dream of Fair Women
• Margaret
• The Blackbird
• The Death of the Old Year
• To J. S.
• “You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease”
• “Of old sat Freedom on the heights”
• “Love thou thy land, with love far-brought”
• The Goose
• The Epic
• Morte d’Arthur
• The Gardener’s Daughter or, The Pictures
• Dora
• Audley Court
• Walking to the Mail
• Edwin Morris, or The Lake
• St Simon Stylites
• The Talking Oak
• Love and Duty
• The Golden Year
• Ulysses
• Locksley Hall
• Godiva
• The Two Voices
• The Day-Dream
• Prologue
• The Sleeping Palace
• The Sleeping Beauty
• The Arrival
• The Revival
• The Departure
• Moral
• L’Envoi
• Epilogue
• Amphion
• St. Agnes
• Sir Galahad
• Edward Gray
• Will Waterproof’s Lyrical Monologue
• To——
• To E. L. on his travels in Greece.
• Lady Clare
• The Lord of Burleigh
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
• A Farewell
• The Beggar Maid
• The Vision of Sin
• Come not, when I am dead…
• The Eagle
• Move eastward, happy earth…
• Break, break, break…
• The Poet’s Song
• Appendix
• Elegiacs
• The “How” and the “Why”
• Supposed Confessions…
• The Burial of Love
• To——
• Song—“I’ the glooming light…”
• Song—“The lintwhite and the throstlecock…”
• Song—“Every day hath its night…”
• Nothing Will Die
• All Things Will Die
• Hero to Leander
• The Mystic
• The Grasshopper
• Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
• Chorus: “The varied earth…”
• Lost Hope
• The Tears of Heaven
• Love and Sorrow
• To a Lady Sleeping
• Sonnet—“Could I outwear my present state of woe…”
• Sonnet—“Though Night hath climbed her peak of highest noon…”
• Sonnet—“Shall the hag Evil die with child of Good…”
• Sonnet—“The pallid thunderstricken sigh for gain…”
• Love
• The Kraken
• English War Song
• National Song
• Dualisms
• We are Free
• οἱ ῥέοντες
• “Mine be the strength of spirit…”
• To—— (“My life is full…”)
• Buonoparte
• Sonnet—“Oh, beauty, passing beauty!…”
• The Hesperides
• Song—“The golden apple…”
• Rosalind
• Song—“Who can say…?”
• Kate
• Sonnet—“Blow ye the trumpet, gather from afar…”
• Poland
• To—— (“As when, with downcast eyes…”)
• O Darling Room
• To Christopher North
• The Skipping Rope
• Timbuctoo
• About The Early Poems of Alfred Tennyson
• Notes