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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Poet to Poet)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Poet to Poet)

by Mick Imlah (Editor), Mick Imlah (Editor), Alfred Lord Tennyson (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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    Hardcover 1994

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Synopsis

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. After a childhood marked by trauma, he went up to Cambridge in 1828, where he met Arthur Hallam, whose premature death had a lasting influence on Tennyson's life and writing. His two volumes of Poems (1842) established him as the leading poet of his generation, and of the Victorian period. He was created Poet Laureate in 1850 and in 1883 accepted a peerage.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Main - Poet to Poet
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0571207006
ISBN 13: 9780571207008
Book Overview: This selection of Alfred, Lord Tennyson poems, chosen by Mick Imlah, is an indispensable introduction to the poet who first wrote the phrases 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all', 'Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die' and 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'.

Author Bio
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the sixth of eleven children of a clergyman. After a childhood marked by trauma, he went up to Cambridge in 1828, where he met Arthur Hallam, whose premature death had a lasting influence on Tennyson's life and writing. His two volumes of Poems (1842) established him as the leading poet of his generation, and of the Victorian period. He was created Poet Laureate in 1850 and in 1883 accepted a peerage. Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1983 to 1986, and worked at the Times Literary Supplement from 1992. His poems appeared in The Zoologist's Bath (1982), Birthmarks (1988), Penguin New Poets 3 (1994) and Diehard (2006). He edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford, 2000) and made selections for Faber of the poems of Tennyson and Edwin Muir. He died in 2009.