This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Tennyson\047s poetry and prose - juvenilia as well as his best-known poems, and letters and journal entries - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Tennyson was acclaimed in his own day as the chief poetic voice of his age, and he remains one of the most highly regarded masters of the music and mood of poetry. This edition selects extensively from Tennyson\047s entire career, beginning with his striking juvenilia, through his career as Poet Laureate and the powerful poetry he wrote in his ninth decade. It contains such classics as \047The Lady of Shalott\047, \047Morte d\047Arthur\047, Break, Break, Break\047, \047Locksley Hall\047, \047Ulysses\047, \047The Charge of the Light Brigade\047, and \047Tears, Idle Tears\047. It also includes in its entirety Tennyson\047s quasi-feminist epic The Princess, as well as the whole of In Memoriam, Maud, Enoch Arden, and several of the Idylls of the King.\012The poems are augmented with a broad selection from Tennyson\047s letters, as well as relevant passages from his son Hallam Tennyson\047s Memoir of his father, where Tennyson talks widely about his own poetry and the writing of others.