Selected Poems

A sizable collection of Tennyson's poems that was edited in accordance with the Penguin English Poets series guidelines. This book focuses on the time era represented by Maud (1855) and In Memoriam (1850). Alfred Lord Tennyson served as Poet Laureate for a significant portion of Queen Victoria's reign and Selected Poems is edited with a preface and notes by Christopher Ricks. Into Death's jaws The six hundred rode into Hell's maw. The poems in this collection span almost sixty years of one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century's literary career and demonstrate the broad range of poetic forms he was proficient in.