A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.
Tennyson and his father till 1827; Somersby till 1827; poems till 1827; Somersby 1828-1831; Cambridge and Arthur Hallam till "Timbuctoo" 1829; Arthur Hallam 1829-1830; poems, chiefly lyrical 1830; the Pyrenees 1830; Arthur Hallam and the Tennysons 1831; Tennyson's brothers and sisters; Tennyson's despondency; Arthur Hallam 1831-1832; poems 1832; poems between 1832 and Hallam's death; poems from Hallam's death till the end of 1834; 1834-1837; poems 1835-1837; 1837-1840; poems 1837-1840; 1840-1847; the princess and the queen; "The Princess" 1847; Emily and marriage 1848-1850; "In Memoriam" 1850; 1850-1855; poems 1852-1854; "Maud" 1855; "Idylls of the King" 1859-1885; "Enoch Arden" and Aylmer's Field" 1864; the later poems; "The days that are no more"; "Crossing the Bar". Appendices: "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington", Edgar Shannon and Christopher Ricks; "The Charge of the Light Brigade", Edgar Shannon and Christopher Ricks.
