Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, USA.

• Note by the General Editor Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition Preface to the Complete Edition Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Chief Publications Abbreviations POEMS Mariana; Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind; Song [A spirit haunts the year’s last hours]; A Character; The Dying Swan; The Kraken; The Lady of Shalott; Mariana in the South; Fatima; Oenone; To –. With the Following Poem; The Palace of Art; The Lotos-Eaters; A Dream of Fair Women; To J.S.; The Eagle; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; The Two Voices; St Simeon Stylites; On a Mourner; Ulysses; Tithon; The Epic; Morte d’Arthur; ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’; ‘Break, break, break’; Sir Galahad; The Day-Dream; ‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave’; A Farewell; Locksley Hall; Audley Court; Edwin Morris; The Golden Year; The Vision of Sin; The Princess; In Memoriam A. H. H.; To the Queen; To E. L., on His Travels in Greece; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Will; The Daisy; To the Rev. F. D. Maurice; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Maud; Tithonus; In the Valley of Cauteretz; Enoch Arden; Hendecasyllabics; Northern Farmer, New style; ‘Flower in the crannied wall’; In the Garden at Swainston; Battle of Brunanburh; Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets; To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson; ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’; To Virgil; To E. FitzGerald; The Dead Prophet; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; To Ulysses; To Mary Boyle; Far – Far – Away; To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava; Parnassus; The Roses on the Terrace; June Bracken and Heather; Crossing the Bar IDYLLS OF THE KING Dedication; The Coming of Arthur; Gareth and Lynette; The Marriage of Geraint; Geraint and Enid; Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Lancelot and Elaine; The Holy Grail; Pelleas and Ettarre; The Last Tournament; Guinevere; The Passing of Arthur; To the Queen Appendices Index of Titles and First Lines

Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, USA.

• Note by the General Editor Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition Preface to the Complete Edition Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Chief Publications Abbreviations POEMS Mariana; Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind; Song [A spirit haunts the year’s last hours]; A Character; The Dying Swan; The Kraken; The Lady of Shalott; Mariana in the South; Fatima; Oenone; To –. With the Following Poem; The Palace of Art; The Lotos-Eaters; A Dream of Fair Women; To J.S.; The Eagle; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; The Two Voices; St Simeon Stylites; On a Mourner; Ulysses; Tithon; The Epic; Morte d’Arthur; ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’; ‘Break, break, break’; Sir Galahad; The Day-Dream; ‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave’; A Farewell; Locksley Hall; Audley Court; Edwin Morris; The Golden Year; The Vision of Sin; The Princess; In Memoriam A. H. H.; To the Queen; To E. L., on His Travels in Greece; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Will; The Daisy; To the Rev. F. D. Maurice; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Maud; Tithonus; In the Valley of Cauteretz; Enoch Arden; Hendecasyllabics; Northern Farmer, New style; ‘Flower in the crannied wall’; In the Garden at Swainston; Battle of Brunanburh; Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets; To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson; ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’; To Virgil; To E. FitzGerald; The Dead Prophet; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; To Ulysses; To Mary Boyle; Far – Far – Away; To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava; Parnassus; The Roses on the Terrace; June Bracken and Heather; Crossing the Bar IDYLLS OF THE KING Dedication; The Coming of Arthur; Gareth and Lynette; The Marriage of Geraint; Geraint and Enid; Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Lancelot and Elaine; The Holy Grail; Pelleas and Ettarre; The Last Tournament; Guinevere; The Passing of Arthur; To the Queen Appendices Index of Titles and First Lines

Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, USA.

• Note by the General Editor Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition Preface to the Complete Edition Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Chief Publications Abbreviations POEMS Mariana; Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind; Song [A spirit haunts the year’s last hours]; A Character; The Dying Swan; The Kraken; The Lady of Shalott; Mariana in the South; Fatima; Oenone; To –. With the Following Poem; The Palace of Art; The Lotos-Eaters; A Dream of Fair Women; To J.S.; The Eagle; Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; The Two Voices; St Simeon Stylites; On a Mourner; Ulysses; Tithon; The Epic; Morte d’Arthur; ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’; ‘Break, break, break’; Sir Galahad; The Day-Dream; ‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave’; A Farewell; Locksley Hall; Audley Court; Edwin Morris; The Golden Year; The Vision of Sin; The Princess; In Memoriam A. H. H.; To the Queen; To E. L., on His Travels in Greece; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Will; The Daisy; To the Rev. F. D. Maurice; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Maud; Tithonus; In the Valley of Cauteretz; Enoch Arden; Hendecasyllabics; Northern Farmer, New style; ‘Flower in the crannied wall’; In the Garden at Swainston; Battle of Brunanburh; Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets; To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson; ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’; To Virgil; To E. FitzGerald; The Dead Prophet; Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; To Ulysses; To Mary Boyle; Far – Far – Away; To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava; Parnassus; The Roses on the Terrace; June Bracken and Heather; Crossing the Bar IDYLLS OF THE KING Dedication; The Coming of Arthur; Gareth and Lynette; The Marriage of Geraint; Geraint and Enid; Balin and Balan; Merlin and Vivien; Lancelot and Elaine; The Holy Grail; Pelleas and Ettarre; The Last Tournament; Guinevere; The Passing of Arthur; To the Queen Appendices Index of Titles and First Lines