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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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.

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.

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.

i have always been a voracious reader and poems have been an insight into the beauty of the human soul. this book is a remarkable attempt to capture the beauty of tennysons poems. its simple and easy to locate any of your favourites by tennyson in this book. i am glad this book is a part of my collection!

Tennyson is a master of music, and allegedly among the most technically skilled of the distinguished English poets.There is I believe a considerable difference between the reputation he had in his own Victorian Times and the lesser reputation he has today.
For myself the great Tennyson poem is 'Ulysses'. Its inspiring message of setting out again to explore in old age is the predecessor of Eliot's" Old Men should be explorers". I will confess that longer poems like 'Enoch Arden' are not really in my mind and heart.

The item I just clicked here and bought and downloaded and opened was NOT "The Works: Alfred Lord Tennyson," but, on opening the item with that title in my Kindle, turned out to be "Becket and Other Plays." No poems. Whatever. Also no search function ("not yet indexed").

Alfred, Lord Tennyson-GENIUS, "mediator for God," Poet Laureate, Tennyson was and is the greatest and most beautiful voice to ever bloom from not just 19th century English Literature, but from English Literature as a whole. Simply put, he cleaned up Shakespeare's mess which had been almost cleaned fully by such great voices as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dickens.

ALL HUMAN EYES WILL MARVEL AT THE BEAUTY OF THE WORDS OF TENNYSON!!!!!

The man that created poetry as an art, and held Europe at a stand still for nearly thirty five years as he held the title of Laurette, now finally his works become very obvious in his complete works, but nothing is more present of the fact then his poem "Odysses", a story about his life, through a myth, fable so to speak.
I grasp that to many times, becomes it feasts, yells, and then knows not me, exceptional is his play on words, and the game I so often play to control them.