Description:
An edition that makes the great poet of the Victorian era more accessible than ever before.
Review Quotes:
"Thoughtfully selected and carefully annotated. The accompanying set of images is beautiful." -- Charles LaPorte, University of Washington
"This is an excellent teaching edition, with a lucid introduction and helpful headnotes to the generous selection of longer poems included. It gives a good sense of the trajectory of Tennyson's career and of the historical backdrop against which it took place. The footnotes and marginal word-glosses are easy to negotiate and judiciously chosen to aid comprehension of the poems rather than put forth an interpretive agenda." -- Stefanie Markovits, Yale University
"This concise collection of Tennyson's best-loved poems will be a standard choice for students and general readers of poetry. The attractive, user-friendly volume features helpful annotations, appendices, and illustrations that will help readers understand Tennyson's importance as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892. The volume features carefully-chosen poems from Tennyson's prolific career, without sacrificing the unity of important longer works such as In Memoriam." -- Kathryn Ledbetter, Texas State University