Table of Contents
Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Preface
Introduction
Part I—the editions
Part II—comparison of the editions
Part III—grouping the poems
Part IV—“Art for art, art for truth.”
Early Poems
To the Queen
Claribel—a Melody
Lilian
Isabel
Mariana
To —— (“Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn”)
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”)
Adeline
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
Sonnet to J. M. K.
The Lady of Shalott
Mariana in the South
EleÄnore
The Miller’s Daughter
Fatima
Œnone
The Sisters
To—— (“I send you here a sort of allegory”)
The Palace of Art
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
The May Queen
New Year’s Eve
Conclusion
The Lotos-Eaters
Dream of Fair Women
Margaret
The Blackbird
The Death of the Old Year
To J. S.
“You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease”
“Of old sat Freedom on the heights”
“Love thou thy land, with love far-brought”
The Goose
The Epic
Morte d’Arthur
The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures
Dora
Audley Court
Walking to the Mail
Edwin Morris; or, The Lake
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