# Selected Poems: Tennyson

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- Book: [Selected Poems: Tennyson](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-tennyson/selected-poems-tennyson) ([Selected Poems: Tennyson.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-tennyson/selected-poems-tennyson.md))
- Authors: [Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://www.bookquiver.com/alfred-tennyson)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-443-0
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2007-12-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud , or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.