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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bibliography

 

PRIMARY SOURCES

 

Poetry

    • Poems, by two brothers [by Alfred, Charles and Frederick Tennyson] (London, 1827)

 

    • Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (London, 1830)

 

 

    • Poems (London, 1833)

 

    • Poems [2 v.] [v. 1 consists of a selection from Poems, 1830 and 1833, and revised; v. 2 comprises new works] (London, 1842)

 

    • The Princess: a medley (London, 1847)

 

 

    • In Memoriam (London, 1850)

 

    • Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (London, 1850)

 

    • Maud and Other Poems (London, 1855)

 

    • Idylls of the King (London, 1859)

 

 

    • Enoch Arden and Other Poems (London, 1864)

 

    • The Holy Grail and Other Poems (London, 1870)

 

    • Gareth and Lynette (London, 1872)

 

    • To the Queen (London, 1873)

 

    • Ballads, and other poems (London, 1880)

 

    • Tiresias, and other poems (London, 1885)

 

    • The works of Tennyson [with annotations by the poet] [9 v.]; ed. Hallam Tennyson (London, 1907-08)

 

Mort D'Arthur  

 

    • The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson, including the Plays (London, 1953)

 

Drama

    • Queen Mary: a drama (London, 1875)

 

    • Harold: a drama (London, 1877)

 

    • The Dramatic Works of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate [2 v.] [v. 1 Queen Mary; v. 2 Harold] (London, 1878)

 

    • The promise of May [a play in three acts] (London, 1882)

 

Memoirs

    • Alfred Lord Tennyson: a Memoir; by his son Hallam Tennyson (London, 1897)

 

    • Letters of literary men. vol 2 [Ed. F.A. Mumby] (London, 1906)

 

    • Tennyson and William Kirby: Unpublished Correspondence [ed. Lorne Pierce] (Toronto, 1929)

 

    • Ellmann, M.J. Unpublished Letters of Tennyson 1833-6 [in, MLN 65 1950] (1950)

 

    • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson; ed. by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon [v. 1 1821-1850; v. 2 1851-1870; v. 3 1871-1892] (Oxford, 1981-90)

 

SECONDARY SOURCES

 

    • Blair, Kirstie. Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 2006.

 

    • Bloom, Harold, ed. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.

 

    • Buckler, William E. The Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

 

    • Culler, A. Dwight. The Poetry of Tennyson. New Haven: Yale UP, 1977.

 

    • Ebbatson, Roger. Tennyson's English Idylls: History, Narrative, Art. Lincoln, England: Tennyson Society, 2003.

 

    • Felluga, Dino Franco. The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2005.

 

    • Graham, Colin. Ideologies of Epic: Nation, Empire and Victorian Epic Poetry. Manchester, England: Manchester UP, 1998.

 

    • Gray, Erik. The Poetry of Indifference from the Romantics to the Rubáiyát. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2005.

 

    • Hair, Donald S. Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1981.

 

    • Henderson, Philip. Tennyson, Poet and Prophet. London: Routledge, 1978.

 

    • Hill, Robert W. Jr., ed. Tennyson's Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1971.

 

    • Killham, John, ed. Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960.

 

    • Kincaid, James R. Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.

 

    • Markley, A. A. Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2004.

 

    • Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.

 

    • McKay, Kenneth. Many Glancing Colors: An Essay in Reading Tennyson, 1809-1850. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

 

    • Ormond, Leonée. Alfred Tennyson: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

 

    • Pattison, Robert. Tennyson and Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1979.

 

    • Pinion, F. B. A Tennyson Companion: Life and Works. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.

 

    • Riede, David G. Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2005.

 

    • Roberts, Adam (ed.) Alfred Tennyson. Oxford, England: Oxford UP, 2000.

 

    • Rosenberg, John D. Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature. London, England: Anthem, 2005.

 

    • Shaw, Marion. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1988.

 

    • Shaw, W. David. Alfred Lord Tennyson. New York, NY: Twayne, 1996.

 

    • Smith, Elton Edward. Tennyson's 'Epic Drama'. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1997.

 

    • Thomson, Alastair W. The Poetry of Tennyson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

 

    • Turner, Paul. Tennyson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.