Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson

Bibliographic Details

• Book Title: Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson
• Author: Alfred Tennyson
• Editorial Credit: Edited with an introduction by V. Rai
• ISBN-13: 9789365612974
• Pages: 266
• Edition: First Edition (2027)
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Poetry > British Literature > Victorian Poetry
• Recommended Age Group: 16 years and above
• Reading Difficulty: Advanced
• Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 7–10 hours (estimated)
• Price (India): ₹325
  

Description

Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson presents a wide-ranging encounter with one of Victorian Britain’s most influential poetic voices. Across lyric, elegy, dramatic monologue and narrative verse, Tennyson gives memorable expression to love, grief, aspiration, national identity and the uncertainty of an age transformed by scientific and social change. His musical command of language and sensitivity to emotional nuance bring both private struggles and public questions vividly to life. The result is poetry that can be richly reflective, dramatically forceful and remarkably accessible through its images and rhythms.

The selections shown in this volume’s contents include well-known works such as The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses, Locksley Hall, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the Bar, alongside poems drawn from different phases of Tennyson’s career. Read together, they illuminate his changing treatment of memory, duty, heroism, faith and loss. Readers can trace the movement from early Romantic inheritance to mature Victorian reflection, seeing how Tennyson’s style adapts to different speakers, forms and subjects. His poems remain invaluable for exploring the relationship between individual feeling and the pressures of history.

Edited with an introduction by V. Rai, this volume offers a useful path through a substantial body of work. Its range makes it well suited to undergraduate literature courses, examinations, classroom teaching and independent study. It also serves general readers looking for enduring passages of beauty, poignancy and intellectual depth. Whether approached as an introduction to Victorian verse or as a convenient selection for revisiting familiar poems, the book showcases Tennyson’s lasting ability to turn complex experience into finely shaped language.

Key Features

• A varied selection of major poems by Alfred Tennyson.
• Edited with an introduction by V. Rai.
• Features Ulysses, The Lady of Shalott and Crossing the Bar.
• Includes works from several stages of Tennyson’s career.
• Explores grief, heroism, identity, duty, memory and belief.
• Highlights lyric, elegiac and dramatic poetic forms.
• A strong resource for Victorian literature courses.
• Supports literary analysis, teaching and exam preparation.
• Shows Tennyson’s acclaimed musical command of language.
• Suitable for students and readers of classic British poetry.

Manufacturer Details

• Publisher: Aumram Publications
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• Printed and bound in: India