The Works Of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Author: Alfred Tennyson

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  • : $16.95 AUD
  • : 9781853264146
  • : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
  • : Wordsworth Editions, Limited
  • : September 1995
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 37mm
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  • : Alfred Tennyson
  • : Wordsworth Poetry Library
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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  • : 628
  • : DCF
  • : bibliography, index
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Barcode 9781853264146
9781853264146

Description

Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages. Much given to melancholy and feelings of aching desolation, Tennyson's verse also carries clear messages of hope: 'Ring out the old, ring in the new', and 'Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'.