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 The poems are organized chronologically, from "Unpublished Early Poems" and "The Devil and the Lady" through "Poems" (1872-92). "The Princess" appears in its entirety. Each poem is accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. 'Contexts" 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.
"Criticism" 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.
【目录】
Preface
The Texts of the Poems
Earliest Poems (ca. 1823ff.): From Unpublished Early Poems (1931)and The Devil and the Lady (1930)
Translation from Claudian's "Proserpine"
From The Devil and the Lady
Armageddon
From Poems by Two Brothers (1827)
Memory
Remorse
"I Wander in Darkness and Sorrow"
From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
Ode to Memory
Song ("A spirit haunts the year's last hours")
The Dying Swan
The Sleeping Beauty
A Character
Supposed Confessions
The Kraken
Mariana
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
From Poems (1832, dated 1833)
"My Life Is Full of Weary Days"
The Lady of Shalott
Mariana in the South
CEnone
To——(With the Following Poem)
The Palace of Art
The Hesperides
A Dream of Fair Women
To——("As when with downcast eyes we muse'
To J. S.
The Lotos-Eaters
The Eagle
From Poems (1842), Including Several Other Pieces Written between 1833 and 1842
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