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Poetry

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

About 6 h 49 min of reading149 chapters

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson gathers the work of the poet's twenties, from the volumes of 1830 and 1832, in a critical edition prepared by John Churton Collins and published in 1900. Here are "Claribel," "Lilian," "Mariana," "Recollections of the Arabian Nights," "Ode to Memory," "The Poet," "The Dying Swan," "The Ballad of Oriana," "The Merman" and "The Mermaid," among many others, poems in which the young Tennyson was already experimenting with sound, mood and pictorial detail. Collins supplies an introduction, variant readings showing how heavily the poet revised, and notes tracing his borrowings from classical and English predecessors. The edition lets a reader watch a major poet learning his craft. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first poems are free.

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