English Poetry III de Alfred Lord Tennyson

English Poetry III

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Walt Whitman

Charles W. Eliot

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf.Volume XLII is the third of three volumes that ambitiously survey half a milliennium of poetry in the English language. The 200 works by 40 19th-century British authors in this volume alone include:• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott"• William Makepeace Thackeray: "The End of the Play"• Robert Browning: "The Lost Mistress"• Emily Bronte: "Last Lines"• Matthew Arnold: "To Marguerite"• Charles Dickens: "The Ivy Green"• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Silent Noon"• Christina Georgina Rossetti: "Song"• William Morris: "Prologue of the Earthly Paradise"• Robert Louis Stevenson: "In the Highlands"• Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven"• Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The Apology"• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Rainy Day"• Walt Whitman: "O Captain! My Captain!"• and many more.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson (6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu." He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana," which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplace in the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" ("In Memoriam A.H.H."), "'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," "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure," "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield," "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers," and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new." He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.