Author:Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson
(1809–1892)

Alfred Tennyson

Works

The following are Tennyson's principal published works (English editions), derived from The Bibliography of Tennyson (1896) by Richard Herne Shepherd.

• Poems by Two Brothers (1827)
• "Timbuctoo", first printed in Prolusiones Academicæ (1829)
• Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
• Poems (1833)
• The Lover's Tale. A Fragment (1833)
• Poems (1843), in 2 vols.
• The Princess; a medley (1847) IA
• In Memoriam (1850)
• Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852) [included in "Maud, and Other Poems"]
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1855), privately printed for distribution among the soldiers before Sebastopol. [included in "Maud, and Other Poems"]
• Maud, and other poems (1855)
• Enid and Nimuë; or, The True and the False (1857), privately printed.
• The Idylls of the King (1859) IA
• A Welcome (1863)
• Enoch Arden, etc (1864) (transcription project)
• The Victim (1867), privately printed.
• The Holy Grail, and Other Poems (1870)
• The Window; or the Songs of the Wrens (1871), with music by Arthur Seymour Sullivan
• Gareth and Lynette (1872) IA
• A Welcome (to Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh) (1874)
• The Lover's Tale, and Other Poems (1875)
• The Lover's Tale (1879) IA
• Ballads and Other Poems (1880) IA
• Tiresias, and Other Poems (1885) IA
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc. (1886) IA
• To Edward Lear, and other poems (1889), illustrated by Edward Lear
• Demeter and other poems (1889) (transcription project)
• The death of Oenone, Akbar's dream, and other poems (1892) (transcription project)

From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)

• The "How" and the "Why"
• The Burial of Love
• Hero to Leander
• The Mystic
• The Grasshopper
• Love, Pride and Forgetfulness
• Lost Hope
• The Sea-Fairies
• Elegiacs
• Supposed Confessions of a secondrate sensitive mind not in unity with itself
• The Deserted House
• The Tears of Heaven
• Love and Sorrow
• Nothing will die
• All things will die
• To a Lady Sleeping
• English Warsong
• National Song
• Dualisms
• The Sleeping Beauty

Poems (1833)

• Sonnet
• To ———
• Buonaparte
• Sonnet
• Sonnet
• The Lady of Shalott
• Mariana in the South
• Eleänore
• The Miller's Daughter
• O Love, Love, Love!
• Œnone
• The Sisters
• To ———, with the following Poem
• The Palace of Art
• The May Queen
• New-Year's Eve
• The Hesperides
• The Lotos-Eaters
• Rosalind
• A Dream of Fair Women
• Song
• Margaret
• Kate
• Sonnet
• Sonnet
• Sonnet
• O Darling Room
• To Christopher North
• The Death of the Old Year
• To J. S.

Poems (1843)

Volume 1

• Claribel
• Lilian
• Isabel
• Mariana
• To ———
• Madeline
• Song—The Owl
• Second Song—To the Same
• Recollections of the Arabian Nights
• Ode to Memory
• Song (A spirit haunts the year's last hours)
• Adeline
• A Character
• The Poet
• The Poet's Mind
• The Dying Swan
• A Dirge
• Love and Death
• The Ballad of Oriana
• Circumstance
• The Merman
• The Mermaid
• Sonnet to J. M. K.
• The Lady of Shalott
• Mariana in the South
• Eleanore
• The Miller's Daughter
• Fatima
• Œnone
• The Sisters
• To ———
• The Palace of Art
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere
• The May Queen
• New Year's Eve
• Conclusion
• The Lotos-Eaters
• A Dream of Fair Women
• Margaret
• The Blackbird
• The Death of the Old Year
• To J. S.
• "You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease"
• "Of Old Sat Freedom On the Heights"
• "Love Thou Thy Land, With Love Far-Brought"
• The Goose

Volume 2

• The Epic
• Morte d'Arthur
• The Gardener's Daughter; or, the Pictures
• Dora
• Audley Court
• Walking to the Mail
• St. Simeon Stylites
• The Talking Oak
• Love and Duty
• Ulysses
• Locksley Hall
• Godiva
• The Two Voices
• The Day-Dream
• Amphion
• St. Agnes
• Sir Galahad
• Edward Gray
• Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue
• Lady Clare
• The Lord of Burleigh
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere
• A Farewell
• The Beggar Maid
• The Vision of Sin
• The Skipping-Rope
• "Move eastward, happy earth, and leave"
• "Break, Break, Break"
• The Poet's Song

The Princess; a Medley (1847)

• The Princess (1847) (transcription project)
  1. As thro' the Land
  2. Sweet and Low
  3. The Splendour Falls
  4. Tears, Idle Tears
  5. O Swallow, Swallow
  6. Thy Voice Is Heard
  7. Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
  8. Our Enemies have Fall'n
  9. Ask Me No More
  10. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  11. Come Down, O Maid

In Memoriam (1850)

• In Memoriam
  • Ring Out, Wild Bells, Canto CIV (based on 1st edition)
    • "Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New", hymn derived from this poem

Maud, and Other Poems (1855)

• Maud
• The Brook; an Idyl
• The Letters
• Ode On the Death of the Duke of Wellington
• The Daisy
• To the Rev. F. D. Maurice
• Will
• The Charge of the Light Brigade

Idylls of the King (1859)

• Idylls of the King (1856-1885)
  1. Dedication
  2. The Coming of Arthur
  3. Gareth and Lynette
  4. The Marriage of Geraint
  5. Geraint and Enid
  6. Balin and Balan
  7. Merlin and Vivien
  8. Lancelot and Elaine
  9. The Holy Grail
  10. Pelleas and Ettarre
  11. The Last Tournament
  12. Guinevere
  13. The Passing of Arthur
  14. To the Queen

Enoch Arden, etc. (1864)

• Enoch Arden
• Aylmer's Field
• Sea Dreams
• The Grandmother
• Northern Farmer
• Tithonus
• The Voyage
• In the Valley of Cauteretz
• The Flower
• Requiescat
• The Sailor Boy
• The Islet
• The Ringlet
• A Welcome to Alexandra
• A Dedication
• Experiments

Experiments

• Enoch Arden, etc/Experiments/Boädice
• Milton: Alcaics
• Hendecasyllabics ("O you chorus of indolent reviewers")
• Specimen of a Translation of the Iliad in Blank Verse

The Window; or, The Song of the Wrens (1871)

• The Window
  • Spring

The Lover's Tale, and Other Poems (1875)

• To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson
• The First Quarrel
• Rizpah
• The Northern Cobbler
• The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
• The Village Wife
• In the Children's Hospital
• "Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• "The Defence of Lucknow" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham
• Columbus
• The Voyage of Maeldune
• "De Profundis" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1877)
• Prefatory Sonnet to the 'Nineteenth Century'
• To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield
• "Montenegro" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1721)
• "To Victor Hugo" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726)

Tiresias, and Other Poems (1885)

Tiresias, and Other Poems

• To E. Fitzgerald
• Tiresias
• The Wreck
• Despair
• The Ancient Sage
• The Flight
• Tomorrow
• The Spinster's Sweet-Arts
• Prologue to General Hamley
• The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava
• Epilogue
• To Virgil
• The Dead Prophet
• Early Spring
• Prefatory Poem to my Brother's Sonnets
• 'Frater Ave atque Vale'
• Helen's Tower
• Epitaph on Lord Stratford de Redcliffe
• Epitaph on General Gordon
• Epitaph on Caxton
• To the Duke of Argyll
• Hands all Round
• Freedom
• Tiresias, and Other Poems/To H.R.H. Princess Beatrice
• 'Old Poets foster'd under friendlier skies'

Demeter, and Other Poems (1889)

• To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
• On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
• To Professor Jebb
• Demeter and Persephone
• Owd Roä
• Vastness
• The Ring
• Forlorn
• Happy
• To Ulysses
• To Mary Boyle
• The Progress of Spring
• Merlin and the Gleam
• Romney's Remorse
• Parnassus
• By an Evolutionist
• Far—far—away
• Politics
• Beautiful City
• The Roses on the Terrace
• The Play
• On One who affected an Effeminate Manner
• To One who ran down the English
• The Snowdrop
• The Throstle
• The Oak
• In Memoriam-William George Ward
• Crossing the Bar

The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems (1892)

• June Bracken and Heather
• To the Master of Balliol
• The Death of Oenone
• St. Telemachus
• Akbar's Dream
• The Bandit's Death
• The Church-warden and the Curate
• Charity
• Kapiolani
• The Dawn
• The Making of Man
• The Dreamer
• Mechanophilus
• Riflemen Form!
• The Tourney
• The Bee and the Flower
• The Wanderer
• Poets and Critics
• A Voice spake out of the Skies
• Doubt and Prayer
• Faith
• The Silent Voices
• God and the Universe
• The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale

Others, to sort

• Song from Maud
• The Kraken
• Song (The winds as at their hour of birth)
• Rosalind
• My Life is Full of Weary Days
• On a Mourner
• You ask me why
• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
• Love thou thy land
• England and America in 1782
• "Lucretius" in Littell's Living Age, 97 (1256)
• The Third of February 1852
• Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition
• A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
• Northern Farmer, New Style
• In the Garden at Swainston
• Child-Songs
• The Spiteful Letter
• Literary Squabbles
• The Victim
• Wages
• The Higher Pantheism
• The Voice and the Peak
• Flower in the Crannied Wall
• Edwin Morris; or, the Lake
• "The Golden Year" in Littell's Living Age, 160 (2069)
• The Captain
• The Eagle
• Come not, when I am dead
• To -, after reading a Life and Letters
• To E. L., on his Travels in Greece
• Crossing the Bar

• Sonnet, (Check every outflash, every ruder sally)
• The Bugle Song (excerpt from The Princess)
• The Grandmother's Apology, 1859
• To the Queen

Translations, etc.

• “The Battle of Brunanburh”, in Ballads and Other Poems (1880)
• “Achilles over the Trench”, in Ballads and Other Poems
• To Princess Frederica on her Marriage
• Sir John Franklin
• To Dante

Plays

• Queen Mary: A Drama
• Harold: A Drama
• Becket
• The Cup: A Tragedy
• The Falcon
• The Promise of May
• The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian

Works about Tennyson

• "Tennyson, Alfred, Baron Tennyson," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Alfred Tennyson," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• Tennyson, a poem by Florence Earle Coates.
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908), "Tennyson" in Varied Types.
• "Life of Tennyson" in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer vol. 2 (1898)
• The Mind of Tennyson: His thoughts of God, Freedom, and Immortality (1900) by Elias Hershey Sneath
• "Alfred Lord Tennyson", a poem by Dorothy Parker (1928)

On his works

• Tennysoniana, 2nd edition (1879), by Richard Herne Shepherd
• "Princess, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "The Princess," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture (1909) by William Paton Ker

Bibliography

• The Bibliography of Tennyson (1896), by Richard Herne Shepherd (transcription project)