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Poems, chiefly lyrical.
This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade. There are extracts from all the major masterpieces-Idylls of the King, The Princess, In Memoriam-and several complete long poems, such as Ulysses and Demeter and Persephone, that demonstrate his narrative grace. Finally, there are many of the short lyrical poems, such as Come into the Garden, Maud and Break, Break, Break, for which he is justly celebrated.
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First published January 1, 1830
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January 5, 2025
"Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth"
An ok collection overall, with a couple of good poems (got this after reading The Kraken online and hoping there would be some more strange poems like that one). Enjoyed the inclusion of Mermen, Mermaids and Sea-Fairies.
Some small pieces of good imagery, like people being made of red atoms, or the "many-sided mind", "the murmurous planets", the idea of hiding from Death like you could from a person. Generally, these poems were not particularly interesting though.
Not the fault of the source content, but this Kindle edition was pretty badly formatted and I would recommend anyone get a physical copy or a different version. Most of the time, the lines within each stanza were not separated, there weren't new pages or even line breaks separating one poem from the title of the next one, and you had to rely on capitalisation to work out where there was a new line or even a new poem. Also some strange triangle brackets instead of speech marks.
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth"
An ok collection overall, with a couple of good poems (got this after reading The Kraken online and hoping there would be some more strange poems like that one). Enjoyed the inclusion of Mermen, Mermaids and Sea-Fairies.
Some small pieces of good imagery, like people being made of red atoms, or the "many-sided mind", "the murmurous planets", the idea of hiding from Death like you could from a person. Generally, these poems were not particularly interesting though.
Not the fault of the source content, but this Kindle edition was pretty badly formatted and I would recommend anyone get a physical copy or a different version. Most of the time, the lines within each stanza were not separated, there weren't new pages or even line breaks separating one poem from the title of the next one, and you had to rely on capitalisation to work out where there was a new line or even a new poem. Also some strange triangle brackets instead of speech marks.
May 9, 2019
More sensual than intellectual.
February 14, 2016
Historical poetry, it turns out, isn't labeled very well on goodreads. The title is what I'm going for; I have no idea what the stuff in the parentheses is, and the description is of some run of the mill 'best of.' Tennyson's first volume of poems is certainly not 'best of' material: much of it is quite bad. Some of it is alright though -- particularly his 'women poems.'
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