Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterized as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages. Much given to melancholy and feelings of aching desolation, Tennyson's verse also carries clear messages of hope: 'Ring out the old, ring in the new', and 'Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'.
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Tennyson is a masterful poet, his verse is hypnotic,
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Of Tennyson's poems, In Memoriam A. H. H. and Maud stand out as personal favourites. In these poems he evokes a gentle blend of melancholy, connectedness with the land and countryside, and a tangible sense of the eternity of life and nature and ones personal destiny within these. His poems are mesmerizing, his rhythmic language and masterful blending of words draws a reader in, and has a hypnotic effect. He isn't trite, clumsy, or contrived. His subjects share the spirit of the Pre-Raphaelite painter's subjects, they are often brooding, forlorn, existing an empty, melancholic, roaming life in a garden of Eden. To the reader, his subjects are real, full and beautiful and are at once human and metaphysical.
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The poetry of Lord Tennyson touches my soul deeply.,
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I am a mariner, in fact a rather old one. The Tennyson poem, Crossing the Bar, as I remember it as a young man and as I read it today as an old man, has taken on new meaning and touched the center of my sensibilities.
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Tennyson's poetry is excellent. This Kindle edition is well laid out, with a linked table of contents at the beginning that leads to subordinate linked tables later on. So if you click for example on Idylls of the King in the main table you are taken to a table which allows you to go straight to the relevant section of the Idylls. The formatting is fine - line breaks and breaks between poems are sensible. Very neat - and a pleasant surprise to find such sophistication in such an early edition.
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Although Tennyson had already published a collection of poetry in 1827 in conjunction with his elder brothers, this volume, the first exclusively of his own poems and no longer consisting of pastiche of earlier poets like Milton, Pope and Byron, was a career landmark. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Lancelot, Table Round, Lady Psyche, King Arthur, The Lady of Shalott, Haroun Alraschid, Sir Bedivere, Lady Clare, Sir Aylmer, Lord Ronald, Earl Doorm, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Edward Gray, Ellen Adair, Sir Torre, Locksley Hall, Sir Ralph, Prince Geraint, Lady Flora, Sir Modred, There Enoch New!
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Although Tennyson had already published a collection of poetry in 1827 in conjunction with his elder brothers, this volume, the first exclusively of his own poems and no longer consisting of pastiche of earlier poets like Milton, Pope and Byron, was a career landmark. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Lancelot, Table Round, Lady Psyche, King Arthur, The Lady of Shalott, Haroun Alraschid, Sir Bedivere, Lady Clare, Sir Aylmer, Lord Ronald, Earl Doorm, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Edward Gray, Ellen Adair, Sir Torre, Locksley Hall, Sir Ralph, Prince Geraint, Lady Flora, Sir Modred, There Enoch New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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