This is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson.
The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems:
The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud
, and
Idylls of the King
. Other key works are included from
Mariana
,
The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses
Tithonus
through Tennyson's middle life and the
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
, to his last years and
Crossing the Bar
.