Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Idylls of the King is een serie van twaalf lange verhalende gedichten over Koning Arthur en de Ridders van de Ronde Tafel van de hand van de Engelse dichter en latere Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. De in blanke verzen geschreven gedichten kwamen niet meteen als een geheel uit. Tennyson werkte er vele jaren lang …

A substantial selection of Tennyson's poetry, edited according to the principles of the Penguin English Poets series. This volume concentrates on the period characterized by Maud(1855) and In Memoriam (1850).

In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Vienna in 1833. Because it was written over a period of 17 years, its meditation on the search for hope …