"In the following pages are given, with a few insignificant exceptions, all the poems at one time deemed by Tennyson worthy of publication, and afterwards rigorously suppressed." -- Foreword.

To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 93 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson's powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson's work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected. The bibliographical notes prefixed to the various poems give, in every case, the date and medium of first publication.

* This volume is brilliantly illustrated with 70 pictures to amplify the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Truly unique! Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS, was considered the most popular British poet. According to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Tennyson is the 9th most quoted writer in the English Language. Yet, some of his poems were dropped from collections of his works, never reprinted - that is, until a scholar named J.C. Thomson dug them up. Here are Tennyson's suppressed works from 1830 to 1868 neatly collected in one volume. What makes this book different from other versions available is that it's a pictorial edition, each poem illustrated by a photographic still life that reflects the sentiments of the verse. A unique presentation.

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