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  <title><![CDATA[Tennyson's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Norton Critical Edition of Tennyson's Poetry, Second Edition, represents a significant revision of its predecessor and assimilates the Tennyson scholarship of the last twenty-five years. The texts of the poems are based on the Eversley edition of Tennyson's Works (published in nine volumes, 1907-09). Under earlier interdiction, the significant Trinity College, Cambridge, manuscripts have been incorporated here. The poems are organized chronologically, from &quot;Unpublished Early Poems&quot; and &quot;The Devil and the Lady&quot; through &quot;Poems&quot; (1872-92). &quot;The Princess&quot; appears in its entirety. Each poem is accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. 'Contexts&quot; includes early assessments of Tennyson and his poetry by Arthur Henry Hallam, John Wilson, John Wilson Croker, John Stuart Mill, John Sterling, James Spedding, and James Knowles. &quot;Criticism&quot; collects seven seminal essays-six of them new to the Second Edition-on both Tennyson and the major poems. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, I S. Eliot, Isobel Armstrong, Herbert F. Tucker, Christopher Ricks, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Robert W Hill, Jr., present their varied perspectives. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are also included.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tennyson's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron (1999)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have only read some of his poems but they are fantastic beyond all expectations]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because I was FORCED to inc school.........]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 31 16:26:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know people might want to throw rocks at me for asking, but am I alone in thinking Tennyson's poetry is mostly just an exercise in belletrism with little else to offer?  <br/><br/>I'm fond of most other major Victorian poets (especially Browning and Rosetti), but Tennyson's work is a real thorn ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1570433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant poet, such a range of emotions, such a cast of characters, every situation in life described, explored...my favorite &quot;Rizpah&quot;!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily my favorite Victorian poet. Christina Rossetti follows somewhere behind. This volume includes &quot;Idylls of the King,&quot; &quot;In Memoriam,&quot; &quot;The Lady of Shallot,&quot; most others.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For my Victorian lit grad seminar.  Liked it better than Robert Browning's <em>The Ring and the Book</em>. (Classic lit)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read: The Lady of Shallot, Mariana, and the Lotos-Eaters]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorite poets]]></body>
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