Alfred Lord Tennyson

A new edition of the finest poems by Tennyson Tennyson's poetry epitomises the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivalric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalott and Morte d'Arthur.

Tennyson's version of the life of King Arthur Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem Morte d'Arthur, he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. Idylls of the King traces the story of Arthur's...