Tennyson’s Text
Danny Karlin, 12 November 1987
The Poems of Tennyson
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Longman, 662 pp., £40, May 1987,0 582 49239 4 Show More
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Longman, 662 pp., £40, May 1987,
Tennyson’s ‘Maud’: A Definitive Edition
edited by Susan Shatto.
Athlone, 296 pp., £28, August 1986,0 485 11294 9 Show More
edited by Susan Shatto.
Athlone, 296 pp., £28, August 1986,
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol.2: 1851-1870
edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon.
Oxford, 585 pp., £40, May 1987,0 19 812691 3 Show More
edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon.
Oxford, 585 pp., £40, May 1987,
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 654 pp., £15.95, June 1987,0 19 214154 6 Show More
edited by Christopher Ricks.
Oxford, 654 pp., £15.95, June 1987,
“... Tennyson knew this particular story. Do you read through every book given to you as a present? Philip Larkin, reviewing Ricks’s 1969 edition, singled out the lines ‘O why have they not buried me deep enough’ as shapeless and unrhythmical; he managed to find a Larkinesque side of Tennyson to admire (‘Northern Farmer, New Style’), but the general ... ”