Tennyson's Poetry 2e (NCE)

Preface ix The Texts of the Poems 3(576) Earliest Poems (ca. 1823ff.): From Unpublished Early Poems (1931) and The Devil and the Lady (1930) 3(15) Translation from Claudian's "Proserpine" 3(3) From The Devil and the Lady 6(5) Armageddon 11(7) From Poems by Two Brothers (1827) 18(6) Memory 18(2) Remorse 20(2) "I Wander in Darkness and Sorrow" 22(2) From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) 24(16) Ode to Memory 24(3) Song ("A spirit haunts the year's last hours") 27(1) The Dying Swan 28(1) The Sleeping Beauty 29(1) A Character 30(1) Supposed Confessions 31(4) The Kraken 35(1) Mariana 36(2) Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere 38(2) From Poems (1832, dated 1833) 40(42) "My Life Is Full of Weary Days" 40(1) The Lady of Shalott 41(4) Mariana in the South 45(3) CEnone 48(6) To------(With the Following Poem) 54(1) The Palace of Art 55(8) The Hesperides 63(3) A Dream of Fair Women 66(8) To------("As when with downcast eyes we muse") 74(1) To J.S. 74(2) The Lotos-Eaters 76(5) The Eagle 81(1) From Poems (1842), Including Several Other Pieces Written between 1833 and 1846 82(210) Ulysses 82(2) The Two Voices 84(13) Saint Simeon Stylites 97(5) Tithonus 102(2) Tithon 104(1) Tiresias 105(6) Break, Break, Break 111(1) The Epic 112(2) "Move Eastward, Happy Earth" 114(1) A Farewell 114(1) Locksley Hall 115(7) The Vision of Sin 122(6) To------(After Reading a Life and Letters) 128(1) The Princess (1847; 1849-51) 129(74) In Memoriam A.H.H. (1833-49; 1850) 203(89) Poems 1850-1872 292(82) To the Queen 292(1) To E.L., on His Travels in Greece 293(1) Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 294(6) The Daisy 300(4) De Profundis 304(1) To the Rev. F.D. Maurice 305(2) The Charge of the Light Brigade 307(2) Maud; A Monodrama (1855) 309(37) In the Valley of the Cauteretz 346(1) Milton 346(1) Enoch Arden 347(20) Northern Farmer (Old Style) 367(3) Northern Farmer (New Style) 370(2) "Flower in the Crannied Wall" 372(1) The Higher Pantheism 373(1) In the Garden at Swainston 374(1) From Idylls of the King (1857-1874) 374(150) Dedication 377(2) The Coming of Arthur 379(13) Merlin and Vivien 392(21) Lancelot and Elaine 413(31) The Holy Grail 444(21) Pelleas and Ettarre 465(13) The Last Tournament 478(17) Guinevere 495(15) The Passing of Arthur 510(11) To the Queen 521(3) From Poems (1872-1892) 524(55) The Revenge 524(3) Battle of Brunanburh 527(4) Rizpah 531(3) "Frater Ave Atque Vale" 534(1) Despair 534(4) To Virgil 538(2) The Dead Prophet 540(2) The Ancient Sage 542(7) Vastness 549(2) Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 551(10) Demeter and Persephone 561(4) To Ulysses 565(2) To Mary Boyle 567(2) Far--Far--Away 569(1) By an Evolutionist 570(1) Parnassus 571(1) Merlin and the Gleam 571(4) The Oak 575(1) June Bracken and Heather 575(1) The Dawn 576(1) The Making of Man 577(1) God and the Universe 577(1) The Silent Voices 577(1) Crossing the Bar 578(1) Contexts 579(32) Arthur Henry Hallam On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson 581(7) John Wilson ["Christopher North"] Tennyson's Poems 588(5) John Wilson Croker Poems by Alfred Tennyson 593(3) John Stuart Mill Tennyson's Poems 596(4) John Sterling Poems by Alfred Tennyson 600(3) James Spedding Tennyson's Poems 603(4) James Knowles A Personal Reminiscence 607(4) Criticism 611(86) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers 613(8) T.S. Eliot In Memoriam 621(7) Isobel Armstrong The Collapse of Object and Subject: In Memoriam 628(13) Herbert F. Tucker Maud and the Doom of Culture 641(17) Christopher Ricks Idylls of the King, 1859-1885 658(9) Gertrude Himmelfarb Household Gods and Goddesses 667(9) R.W. Hill Jr. A Familiar Lesson from the Victorians 676(21) Tennyson: A Chronology 697(2) Selected Bibliography 699(2) Index of Poems and First Lines 701