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Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

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Baron Tennyson; poet laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and one of the most popular English poets in literature.
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Alfred Tennyson

Works

• Poems by Two Brothers, 1827
• Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, 1830
• Poems, 1833
• Demeter and other poems (1889)
• The death of Oenone, Akbar's dream, and other poems (1892)

Poems from Tennyson's Final Edition

• To the Queen

Juvenilia

• Claribel
• Nothing will Die
• All Things will Die
• Leonine Elegiacs
• Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind
• The Kraken
• Song (The winds as at their hour of birth)
• Lilian
• Isabel
• Mariana
• To -
• Madeline
• Song - The Owl
• Second Song - To the Same
• Recollections of the Arabian Nights
• Ode to Memory
• Song (A spirit haunts the year's last hours)
• 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
• Adeline
• Margaret
• Rosalind
• Eleanore
• Kate
• My Life is Full of Weary Days

The Lady of Shalott, and Other Poems

• The Lady of Shalott
• Mariana in the South
• The Two Voices
• The Miller's Daughter
• Fatima
• Oenone
• The Sisters
• The Palace of Art
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere
• The May Queen
• The Lotos-Eaters
• A Dream of Fair Women
• The Blackbird
• The Death of the Old Year
• To J. S.
• On a Mourner
• You ask me why
• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
• Love thou thy land
• England and America in 1782
• The Goose

English Idyls and other Poems

• 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. Simeon Stylites
• The Talking Oak
• Love and Duty
• "The Golden Year" in Littell's Living Age, 160 (2069)
• Ulysses
• Tithonus
• Locksley Hall
• Godiva
• The Day-Dream (external scan)
• Amphion
• St. Agnes' Eve
• Sir Galahad
• Edward Gray
• Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue
• Lady Clare
• The Captain
• The Lord of Burleigh
• The Voyage
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
• A Farewell
• The Beggar Maid
• The Eagle
• Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
• Come not, when I am dead
• The Letters
• The Vision of Sin
• To -, after reading a Life and Letters
• To E. L., on his Travels in Greece
• Break, Break, Break
• The Poet's Song

Enoch Arden, and Other Poems

• Enoch Arden
• The Brook
• Aylmer's Field
• Sea Dreams
• "Lucretius" in Littell's Living Age, 97 (1256)

The Princess; a Medley

• The Princess (1847) (external scan)

  1910 annotated edition: (external scan)

  1. As thro' the Land
  2. Sweet and Low
  3. The Splendour Falls
  4. Tears, Idle Tears
  5. O Swallow, Swallow
  6. Thy Voice Is Heard
  7. Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
  8. Our Enemies have Fall'n
  9. Ask Me No More
  10. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  11. Come Down, O Maid

• Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
• The Third of February 1852
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition
• A Welcome to Alexandra
• A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
• The Grandmother
• Northern Farmer, Old Style
• Northern Farmer, New Style
• The Daisy
• To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
• Will
• In the Valley of Cauteretz
• In the Garden at Swainston
• The Flower
• Requiescat
• The Sailor Boy
• The Islet
• Child-Songs
• The Spiteful Letter
• Literary Squabbles
• The Victim
• Wages
• The Higher Pantheism
• The Voice and the Peak
• Flower in the Crannied Wall
• A Dedication

Experiments

• Boadicea
• Hexameters and Pentameters
• Milton (Alcaics)
• Hendecasyllabics ("O you chorus of indolent reviewers")
• Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse

The Window; or, The Song of the Wrens

• The Window
  • Spring

In Memoriam A. H. H.

• In Memoriam A. H. H.
  • CVI: Ring Out Wild Bells
    • "Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New", hymn derived from this poem

Maud: A Monodrama

• Maud
  • Song from Maud

Idylls of the King

• Idylls of the King (1856-1885)
  1. Dedication
  2. The Coming of Arthur
  3. Gareth and Lynette
  4. The Marriage of Geraint
  5. Geraint and Enid
  6. Balin and Balan
  7. Merlin and Vivien
  8. Lancelot and Elaine
  9. The Holy Grail
  10. Pelleas and Ettarre
  11. The Last Tournament
  12. Guinevere
  13. The Passing of Arthur
  14. To the Queen

The Lover's Tale

• To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson
• The First Quarrel
• Rizpah
• The Northern Cobbler
• The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
• The Village Wife
• In the Children's Hospital
• "Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• "The Defence of Lucknow" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham
• Columbus
• The Voyage of Maeldune
• "De Profundis" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1877)
• Prefatory Sonnet to the 'Nineteenth Century'
• To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield
• "Montenegro" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1721)
• "To Victor Hugo" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726)

Tiresias, and Other Poems (1885)

• To E. Fitzgerald
• Tiresias
• The Wreck
• "Despair" in Littell's Living Age, 151 (1953)
• The Ancient Sage
• The Flight
• Tomorrow
• The Spinster's Sweet-Arts
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
• Prologue to General Hamley
• The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava
• Epilogue
• "To Virgil" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1998)
• The Dead Prophet
• Early Spring
• Prefatory poem to my Brother's Sonnets
• Frater Ave atque Vale
• Helen's Tower
• Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
• Epitaph on General Gordon
• Epitaph on Caxton
• To the Duke of Argyll
• Hands all Round
• Freedom
• To H. R. H. Princess Beatrice
• The Fleet
• Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen
• Poets and their Bibliographies
• To W. C. Macready

Demeter, and Other Poems (1889)

• To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
• On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
• To Professor Jebb
• Demeter and Persephone
• Owd Roa
• Vastness
• The Ring
• Forlorn
• Happy
• To Ulysses
• To Mary Boyle
• The Progress of Spring
• Merlin and the Gleam
• Romney's Remorse
• Parnassus
• By An Evolutionist
• Far - far - away
• Politics
• Beautiful City
• The Roses on the Terrace
• The Play
• On One who affected an Effeminate Manner
• To One who ran down the English
• The Snowdrop
• The Thistle
• The Oak
• In Memoriam - W. G. Ward
• Crossing the Bar

The Death of Oenone, and Other Poems

• June Bracken and Heather
• To the Master of Balliol
• The Death of Oenone
• St. Telemachus
• Akbar's Dream
• The Bandit's Death
• The Church-Warden and the Curate
• Charity
• Kapiolani
• The Dawn
• The Making of Man
• The Dreamer
• Mechanophilus
• Riflemen form!
• The Tourney
• The Wanderer
• Poets and Critics
• A Voice spake out of the Skies
• Doubt and Prayer
• Faith
• The Silent Voices
• God and the Universe
• The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale
• Crossing the Bar

Translations, etc.

• Battle of Brunanburh
• Achilles over the Trench
• To Princess Frederica on her Marriage
• Sir John Franklin
• To Dante

Poems not in Tennyson's Final Edition

• Timbuctoo
• Sonnet, (Check every outflash, every ruder sally)

From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)

• The 'How' and the 'Why'
• The Burial Of Love
• Hero to Leander
• The Mystic (Tennyson)
• The Grasshopper
• Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
• Lost Hope
• The Tears of Heaven
• Love and Sorrow
• To a Lady Sleeping
• English Warsong
• National Song
• Dualisms
• No More
• Anacreontics
• The Sleeping Beauty

From Poems, 1833

• The Hesperides
• Note to Rosalind
• O Darling Room
• To Christopher North
• The Skipping-Rope
• The New Timon, and the Poets
• Britons, Guard Your Own
• For the Penny-Wise
• Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper
• Stanzas on the Marriage of the Princess Royal
• Epitaph on the Duchess of Kent
• The Ringlet
• 1865-1866
• And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?

Other poems

• The Bugle Song (excerpt from The Princess)
• The Grandmother's Apology, 1859

Plays

• Queen Mary: A Drama
• Harold: A Drama
• Becket
• The Cup: A Tragedy
• The Falcon
• The Promise of May
• The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian

Works about Tennyson

• "Tennyson, Alfred, Baron Tennyson," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Alfred Tennyson," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• Tennyson, a poem by Florence Earle Coates.
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908), "Tennyson" in Varied Types.
• "Life of Tennyson" in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer vol. 2 (1898)
• The Mind of Tennyson: His thoughts of God, Freedom, and Immortality (1900) by Elias Hershey Sneath

On his works

• "Princess, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "The Princess," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)