Selected Poems (Classics) - Softcover

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140445455 ISBN 13: 9780140445459

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

Synopsis

Aidan Day's selection does full justice to the extraordinary range of Tennyson's works. This edition also includes further reading and a chronology of Tennyson's life and career.

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Review:

"* 'A world-class poet, one of that extraordinary group - perhaps a dozen? - who illuminate our lives, not just for now, but for as long as words have meaning' Carolyn Kizer * 'A sustained creative effort issuing in an oeuvre of epic sweep and lyric intensity' Seamus Heaney"

About the Author:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) was created Poet Laureate in 1850, and obtained a peerage in 1883. He was the leading poet of his generation.
Aidan Day is Professor of Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of a number of articles on Tennyson and has written on Browning and Romanticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140445455
• ISBN 13: 9780140445459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Day Aidan