This gorgeous new collection gathers into one concise volume the finest work by Queen Victoriaas favorite poet. Whether steeped in sensuous melancholy, as in aMaud, a or chivalric, heroic, and allegorical, as in aMorte DaArthur, a Tennysonas poetry epitomizes the Victorian age for which he became a spokesperson when named Poet Laureate of England in 1850.
