Tennyson's Poetry

TheNortonCriticalEditionofTennyson'sPoetry,SecondEdition,representsasignificantrevisionofitspredecessorandassimilatestheTennysonscholarshipofthelasttwenty-fiveyears.ThetextsofthepoemsarebasedontheEversleyeditionofTennyson'sWorks(publishedinninevolumes,1907-09).Underearlierinterdiction,thesignificantTrinityCollege,Cambridge,manuscriptshavebeenincorporatedhere.Thepoemsareorganizedchronologically,from"UnpublishedEarlyPoems"and"TheDevilandtheLady"through"Poems"(1872-92)."ThePrincess"appearsinitsentirety.Eachpoemisaccompaniedbyampleexplanatoryannotation.'Contexts"includesearlyassessmentsofTennysonandhispoetrybyArthurHenryHallam,JohnWilson,JohnWilsonCroker,JohnStuartMill,JohnSterling,JamesSpedding,andJamesKnowles."Criticism"collectssevenseminalessays-sixofthemnewtotheSecondEdition-onbothTennysonandthemajorpoems.EveKosofskySedgwick,IS.Eliot,IsobelArmstrong,HerbertF.Tucker,ChristopherRicks,GertrudeHimmelfarb,andRobertWHill,Jr.,presenttheirvariedperspectives.AChronology,SelectedBibliography,andIndexarealsoincluded.