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Alfred Tennyson
(1809–1892)

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Baron Tennyson; poet laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and one of the most popular English poets in literature.
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The following are Tennyson's principal published works (English editions), derived from The Bibliography of Tennyson (1896) by Richard Herne Shepherd.

• Poems by Two Brothers (1827)
• "Timbuctoo", first printed in Prolusiones Academicæ (1829)
• Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)
• Poems (1833)
• The Lover's Tale. A Fragment (1833)
• Poems (1843), in 2 vols.
• The Princess; a medley (1847)
• In Memoriam (1850)
• Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (1852) [included in "Maud, and Other Poems"]
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1855), privately printed for distribution among the soldiers before Sebastopol. [included in "Maud, and Other Poems"]
• Maud, and other poems (1855)
• Enid and Nimuë; or, The True and the False (1857), privately printed.
• The Idylls of the King (1859) (transcription project)
• A Welcome (1863)
• Enoch Arden, etc (1864)
• The Victim (1867), privately printed.
• The Holy Grail, and Other Poems (1870)
• The Window; or the Songs of the Wrens (1871), with music by Arthur Seymour Sullivan
• Gareth and Lynette (1872) IA
• A Welcome (to Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh) (1874)
• The Lover's Tale, and Other Poems (1875)
• The Lover's Tale (1879) IA
• Ballads and Other Poems (1880) IA
• Tiresias, and Other Poems (1885)
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc. (1886) (transcription project)
• To Edward Lear, and other poems (1889), illustrated by Edward Lear
• Demeter and other poems (1889)
• The death of Oenone, Akbar's dream, and other poems (1892) (transcription project)

• Index of Titles

• The Princess (1847) (transcription project)
  1. As thro' the Land
  2. Sweet and Low
  3. Tears, Idle Tears
  4. O Swallow, Swallow
  5. Thy Voice Is Heard
  6. Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
  7. Our Enemies have Fall'n
  8. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  9. Come Down, O Maid

• In Memoriam
  • Ring Out, Wild Bells, Canto CIV (based on 1st edition)
    • "Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New", hymn derived from this poem

• Idylls of the King (1856-1885)
  1. Dedication
  2. The Coming of Arthur
  3. Gareth and Lynette
  4. The Marriage of Geraint
  5. Geraint and Enid
  6. Balin and Balan
  7. Merlin and Vivien
  8. Lancelot and Elaine
  9. The Holy Grail
  10. Pelleas and Ettarre
  11. The Last Tournament
  12. Guinevere
  13. The Passing of Arthur
  14. To the Queen

• The Window
  • Spring

• To Alfred Tennyson, My Grandson
• The First Quarrel
• Rizpah
• The Northern Cobbler
• The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
• The Village Wife
• In the Children's Hospital
• "Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• "The Defence of Lucknow" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1822)
• Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham
• Columbus
• The Voyage of Maeldune
• "De Profundis" in Littell's Living Age, 145 (1877)
• Prefatory Sonnet to the 'Nineteenth Century'
• To the Rev. W. H. Brookfield
• "Montenegro" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1721)
• "To Victor Hugo" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1726)

• And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?
• Song from Maud
• On a Mourner
• You ask me why
• Love thou thy land
• England and America in 1782
• "Lucretius" in Littell's Living Age, 97 (1256)
• The Third of February 1852
• Ode sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition
• A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh
• Northern Farmer, New Style
• In the Garden at Swainston
• Child-Songs
• The Spiteful Letter
• Literary Squabbles
• The Victim
• Wages
• The Higher Pantheism
• The Voice and the Peak
• Flower in the Crannied Wall
• Edwin Morris; or, the Lake
• "The Golden Year" in Littell's Living Age, 160 (2069)
• The Captain
• The Eagle
• Come not, when I am dead
• To -, after reading a Life and Letters
• To E. L., on his Travels in Greece
• Crossing the Bar

• Sonnet, (Check every outflash, every ruder sally)
• The Bugle Song (excerpt from The Princess)
• The Grandmother's Apology, 1859
• To the Queen

• “The Battle of Brunanburh”, in Ballads and Other Poems (1880)
• “Achilles over the Trench”, in Ballads and Other Poems
• To Princess Frederica on her Marriage
• Sir John Franklin
• To Dante

• Queen Mary: A Drama
• Harold: A Drama
• Becket
• The Cup: A Tragedy
• The Falcon
• The Promise of May
• The Foresters: Robin Hood and Maid Marian

• "Tennyson, Alfred, Baron Tennyson," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Lord," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Tennyson, Alfred, Lord," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Alfred Tennyson," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "Life of Tennyson" in Leslie Stephen's Studies of a Biographer vol. 2 (1898)
• The Mind of Tennyson: His thoughts of God, Freedom, and Immortality (1900) by Elias Hershey Sneath
• "Tennyson" in Varied Types (1908), by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• "Tennyson's Early Years" in The Strand Magazine, 2 (10)

• Tennysoniana, 2nd edition (1879), by Richard Herne Shepherd
• "Princess, The," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "The Princess," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture (1909) by William Paton Ker

• The Bibliography of Tennyson (1896), by Richard Herne Shepherd (transcription project)

• "Tennyson", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• "Alfred Tennyson", a poem by Thomas Henry Kendall
• "Alfred Lord Tennyson", a poem by Dorothy Parker (1928)