Tennyson, A Selected edition

Alfred Tennyson

ISBN 10: 0520066669 / ISBN 13: 9780520066663

Published by University of California Press, 1989

Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # E09A-02686

Synopsis:

This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. It provides teachers, students, and the general reader with an affordable paperback of the central body of the work which theSunday Telegraph described as the best edition this century of the best poet of the last century.”

From the Back Cover:

Tennyson: A Selected Edition is drawn from Christopher Ricks' own The Poems of Tennyson, which first appeared in 1969 and was published as a second, three-volume edition, in 1987. Acclaimed by both the literary and academic worlds, it is acknowledged as a major achievement of editiorial scholarship and has established itself as the authoritative edition of the great poet of the Victorian age.

Tennyson: A Selected Edition includes in full all four of Tennyson's long poems -The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King - as well as all the great poems includingMariana, The Lady of Shalott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses and Tithonus. In addition - and of vital importance to the scholar and student - this edition retains all the headnotes and footnotes from the complete edition, which shed valuable light on context and composition and which illuminate the wealth of allusion, classical and other, that Tennyson brought to bear within his poetry.

Now in a corrected edition,Tennyson: A Selected Edition will remain the standard edition for many years to come.

Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He is the author of Tennyson (second edition, 1989), and is the co-editor, with Aidan Day, of The Tennyson Archive, which reproduces in facsimile Tennyson's manuscripts (31 vols., 1987-93).  His Professor of Poetry at Oxford for the term 2004-2009.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tennyson, A Selected edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good