Screen LibraryIdylls of the king and a selection of poems
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Signet Classic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | [2003] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 367 p.: ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0451528751 (alk. paper) 9780451528759 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.24 |
| Call Number: | I561.24/T312-2 |
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Includes bibliographical references. Introduction -- Idylls of the king: Dedication -- Coming of Arthur -- Round table: Gareth and Lynette -- Marriage of Geraint -- Geraint and Enid -- Balin and Balan -- Merlin and Vivien -- Lancelot and Elaine -- Holy grail -- Pelleas and ettarre -- Last tournament -- Guinevere -- Passing of Arthur -- To the queen -- Selection of poems: Kraken -- Mariana -- Song -- Poet -- Lady of Shalott -- Lotos-eaters -- Choric song -- Break, break, break -- Two voices -- Ulysses -- Tithonus -- Of old sat freedom on the heights -- St. Agnes' eve -- Locksley hall -- Four songs from the Princess: Medley: Splendor falls -- Tears, idle tears -- Ask me no more -- Now sleeps the crimson petal -- Eagle (Fragment) -- From In Memoriam A.H.H.: Strong son of God -- I held it truth -- Dark house -- If one should bring -- I envy not -- If sleep and death -- Baby new -- Be near me -- O yet we trust -- When on my bed -- I cannot see -- What hope is here -- How pure at heart -- Ring out, wild bells -- O, wast thou with me -- O living will -- Again the feast -- Daisy -- From Maud: Monodrama: I have led her home -- Come into the garden, Maud -- Flower in the crannied wall -- To Virgil -- Crossing the bar. With regal melancholy and superb craftsmanship, Tennyson's poems evoke Past and Present-the Isle of the Lotos-eaters, Camelot, and his own twilit English gardens-seeking to reconcile the Victorian zeal for public progress with private despair. He juxtaposes opposites-not only Past and Present, but also Beauty and Squalor, High Class and Low-and then entwines them. The closeness of these opposites lets Tennyson's poems "transcend their own achievements and their own intentions." (George Barker) Praised over all other poets for his unerring portraits of the gentleman and the beggar alike, Tennyson still favored neither. And just as these portraits hang together, his poems are accessible to both "intellectual potentates [and] the common or sensible man." (George Barker) Using eloquence, melancholy, and myths, Alfred Lord Tennyson proved to be the stylist most imitated by poets of his day. |