Contents
Note by the General Editors
Prefatory Note to this Selected Edition
Preface to the Complete Edition
Acknowledgements
Chronological Table of Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Chief Publications
Abbreviations
POEMS
73 Mariana
78 Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind
86 Song [A spirit haunts the year’s last hours]
88 A Character
97 The Dying Swan
113 The Kraken
159 The Lady of Shalott
160 Mariana in the South
163 Fatima
164 Œnone
166 To –. With the Following Poem
167 The Palace of Art
170 The Lotos-Eaters
173 A Dream of Fair Women
183 To J.S.
199 The Eagle
205 Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
209 The Two Voices
210 St Simeon Stylites
216 On a Mourner
217 Ulysses
218 Tithon [Appx I]
225 The Epic
226 Morte d’Arthur
227 ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’ [Appx I]
228 ‘Break, break, break’
234 Sir Galahad
241 The Day-Dream
Prologue
The Sleeping Palace
The Sleeping Beauty
The Arrival
The Revival
The Departure
Moral
L’Envoi
Epilogue
261 ‘Move eastward, happy earth, and leave’
265 A Farewell
271 Locksley Hall
274 Audley Court
275 Edwin Morris
276 The Golden Year
277 The Vision of Sin
286 The Princess
296 In Memoriam A. H. H.
299 To the Queen
301 To E. L., on His Travels in Greece
309 Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
310 Will
311 The Daisy
312 To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
315 The Charge of the Light Brigade
316 Maud
324 Tithonus
326 In the Valley of Cauteretz
330 Enoch Arden
334 Hendecasyllabics
344 Northern Farmer, New style
349 ‘Flower in the crannied wall’
357 In the Garden at Swainston
366 Battle of Brunanburh
377 Prefatory Poem to My Brother’s Sonnets
384 To Alfred Tennyson My Grandson
385 ‘Frater Ave atque Vale’
394 To Virgil
398 To E. FitzGerald
400 The Dead Prophet
417 Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
423 To Ulysses
425 To Mary Boyle
426 Far – Far – Away
427 To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
430 Parnassus
434 The Roses on the Terrace
450 June Bracken and Heather
462 Crossing the Bar
IDYLLS OF THE KING
463 Dedication
464 The Coming of Arthur
The Round Table:
465 Gareth and Lynette
466 The Marriage of Geraint
467 Geraint and Enid
468 Balin and Balan
469 Merlin and Vivien
470 Lancelot and Elaine
471 The Holy Grail
472 Pelleas and Ettarre
473 The Last Tournament
474 Guinevere
475 The Passing of Arthur
476 To the Queen
APPENDICES
I. Alternative Drafts
The Princess
In Memoriam A. H. H.
To the Queen [1851]
Maud: ‘Oh! that ’twere possible’
Tithonus: Tithon
Idylls of the King
II. Contents pages of the Complete Edition
Index of Titles and First Lines