As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victorias reign Alfred Lord Tennysons spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of HellRode the six hundredThe works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth centurys greatest poets and show the wide variety of poetic forms he mastered. This selection gives some of Tennysons most famous works in full including Maud depicting a tragic love affair and In Memoriam a profound tribute to his dearest friend. Excerpts from Idylls of the King show a lifelong passion for Arthurian legend also seen in the dreamlike The Lady of Shalot and in Morte dArthur.