This gorgeous new collection gathers into one concise volume the finest work by
Queen Victoria's favorite poet. Whether steeped in sensuous melancholy, as in "M
aud," or chivalric, heroic, and allegorical, as in "Morte D'Arthur," Tennyson's
poetry epitomizes the Victorian age for which he became a spokesperson when name
d Poet Laureate of England in 1850.
