The major works

Introduction

Chronology

Note on the text

Poems:

Timbuctoo

Idealist

Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830):

Mariana

Supposed confessions of a second-rate sensitive mind

Song (I the glooming light)

Song(Spirit haunts the year's last hours)

Kraken

Poems (1832):

Lady of shallot

Mariana in the South

Enone

Place of art

Hesperides

Lotos-eaters

Dream of fair women

Poems (1842):

Two voices

St Simeon stylites

Ulysses

Tithon (first version)

Epic /Morte d' Arthur

You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease

Audley Court

Break, break, break

Sir Galahad

Farewell

Oh that twere possible

Locksley Hall

Vision of sin

Eagle

Princess (1847)

In memoriam AHH (1850)

Laureate Poems:

To the queen

Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington

Charge of the light brigade

Maud: a monodrama (1855)

Tithonus (final version)

Enoch Arden (1864)

Poems From The 1860s:

Milton: Alcaics:

Hendecasyllabics

Helen's tower

Northern Farmer, new style

Flower in the crannied wall

Higher pantheism

Lucretius

from: Idylls Of The King (1869):

Merlin and Vivien

Holy grail

Poems Of The 1870s And 1880s:

Rizpah

Revenge

Battle of Brunanburh

Voyage of Maeldune

De Profundis

Frater Ave atque Vale

To Virgil

Vastness

Locksley Hall sixty years after

Far-far-away

Merlin and the Gleam

Crossing the bar

Prose:

Letters And Journal Entries:

To Mary Anne Fytche [Oct 1821]

Elizabeth Russell 18 Apr [1828]

Acts of the Apostles' [1829-30]

Elizabeth Russel 18 Mar [1832]

To William Henry Brookfield [mid-Mar 1832]

To James Spedding [7 Feb 1833]

Henry Elton to Alfred Tennyson 1 Oct 1833

To Richard Monckton Milnes [3 Dec 1833]

To Sofia Walls Rawnsley [Dec 1833]

To Henry Hallam 14 Feb 1834

To James Spedding [Mar 1835]

To Richard Monckton Milnes [9 Jan 1837]

To Leigh Hunt [13 July 1837]

To Emily Sellwood [Mar/Apr] 1838

To Emily Sellwood [Oct/Nov 1838]

To Emily Sellwood [Jan 1839]

Emily Sellwood [Nov 1840]

To Charles Stearns Wheeler [26 Aug 1841]

To Edmund Lushington [Feb 1842]

To Edward Fitzgerald [July 1842]

Thomas Carlyle to Ralph Waldo Emerson [5 Aug 1844]

Tennyson's journal of his tour of Switzerland, Aug 1846

Charles Dickens to John Forster [24 Aug 1846]

To Coventry Patmore [28 Feb 1840]

To Emily Sellwood Tennyson, [13 July 1852]

To John Forster 11 Aug 1852

To Robert James Mann [Sept 1855]

GG Bradley 25 Aug 1855

To George Brimley 28 Nov 1855

Tennyson's Journal of his tour of Portugal, Aug-Sept 1859

To Duke of Argyll [3 Oct 1859]

To Princess Alice [13 Jan 1862]

To Frederick Locker [31 Jan 1863]

To Algernon Charles Swinburne [Mar 1865]

To Richard Owen [Oct 1865]

Tennyson and Gladstone in conversation, 8 Dec 1865

To Francis Palgrave [24 Dec 1868]

To William Cox Bennett [13 Nov 1872]

To Gladstone [30 Mar 1873]

To Gladstone [16 Apr 1873]

To Benjamin Paul Blood [7 May 1874]

To Matthew Fraser [7 May 1880]

To Gladstone [early Dec 1883]

To Francisque Michel [28 Jan 1884]

To Elizabeth Chapman [23 Nov 1886]

To Walt Whitman [15 Nov 1887]

To Charles Esmarch [18 Apr 1888]

Excerpts from Hallam Tennyson's memoir: Tennyson in his own words

Notes

Further reading

Index of titles

Index of first lines.