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Publication Date: July 06, 2008
Sales Rank: 71802
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This edition offers a significant revision of its predecessor. The editor has written an introduction that provides an historical and contextual overview, from the book's genesis to its publication and reception. The text is the Eversley Edition of 1901-08.
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Rating:  - DIVERS TONES
This is a critical edition with a vengeance. By page-count, the 3000-line poem occupies about 100 pages while the critical essays at the back take up about 150, and there is a preface as well. Whether this preface is from the pen of the editor Erik Gray or is by the previous Norton editor Robert H Ross I'm not fully clear, but I don't suppose it matters. For present purposes I am considering this introduction together with the appended essays.
The great and good of lit crit are out in ... Read More
Rating: - Greatest Narrative Poem since Paradise Lost
Yes, I mean it.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was definately the greatest poet of the Victorian Age, and in my opinion the greatest English poet of the nineteenth century.
This wonderful Norton Critical Edition presents his masterpiece, the great poetical work which made him poet laureate when it was published in 1850.
In this great work, it is Tennyson analysing his grief over the sudden loss of his friend from Cambridge University, Arthur Hallam, who died ... Read More
Rating:  - He Was Too Young To Die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote:
"Forgive my grief for one removed,
Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
I trust he lives in thee, and there
I find him worthier to be loved.
Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
Confusions of a wasted youth;
Forgive them where they fail in truth,
And in thy wisdom make me wise."
Zachary writes, "Life without Tristan is like the dark side of the moon. It's been eighteen weeks ... Read More
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Format: Kindle Book
Publication Date: July 06, 2008
Sales Rank: 71802