Selected Poems

''Tennyson'', wrote T. S. Eliot, ''has the finest ear of any English poet since Milton,'' and his verse remains unrivalled in its combination of verbal richness, emotional depth and intellectual engagement. Tennyson drew on classical and medieval legends in poems like ''The Lotos-Eaters'' (1832) and ''The Lady of Shalott'' (1832) to explore the spiritual tensions of the nineteenth century. In one ...