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Alfred, Lord, 1st Baron Tennyson

Male : Poet. Poet Laureate 1850 and that same year married Emily Sellwood. Buried in Westminster Abbey
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Somersby, Lincolnshire

Date of Birth : 1809 Date of Death : 1892 Age : 83

Education : Louth GS & Trinity College, Cambridge
1827-1830
Poems by Two Brothers
(1827 Jacksons of Louth) (1893 Macmillan. 2nd Ed - 300 Large Paper)
Timbuctoo : A Poem which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement
(1829 John Smith, Cambridge)
Offered in 1999 for £1395
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
(1830 Effingham Wilson)

1831-1850
Poems
(1833 Edward Moxon) - Ltd Ed 450
Poems
(1842 Moxon - 2 vols) (1842 Ticknor, Boston - 2 vols) (1845 3rd Ed)
Morte D'Arthur, Dora and Other Idylls
(1842) - WISE FORGERY
The Princess : A Medley
(1847 Moxon)
In Memoriam
(1850 Moxon) (1850 Ticknor, Reed & Fields) - 500 large paper copies.
[ Reflects his grief for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died in 1833]

1851-1860
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington
(1852 Moxon) - 16pp pamphlet
Maud and Other Poems
(1855 Moxon) (1855 Ticknor & Fields - 3000)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(1855 London) - pamphlet
Dora
(1856 London)
The Poetical Works
(1856 Ticknor & Fields, Boston) - 1000
Poems
(1857 Moxon) - Rossetti, Millais, Hunt, etc
The Miller's Daughter
(1858 W Kent) - A L Bond
Idylls of the King
(1859 Moxon) (1868 Cassell - 36 engravings by Gustave Dore )

1861-1870
The May Queen
(1861 Sampson Low) - W R Thomms OR E V Boyle
Poems 1830-3
(1862 privately printed) (1862 PP in Toronto)- Anon. pamphlet
Mariana
(1863 O. Breads, Worthing) - pamphlet
A Welcome
(1863 Moxon)
Enoch Arden
(1864 Moxon) (1865 J E Tilton, Boston)
(1866 Moxon - 1st illus Ed - Arthur Hughes )
A Selection from his Works
(1865 Moxon's Miniature Poets)
Tennysoniana
(1866 Basil Pickering)
Guinevere
(1867 Moxon) - Gustave Dore
The Story of Enid and Geraint
(1868 Moxon) - Gustave Dore
The Idylls of the King
(1868 Moxon) - Gustave Dore
The Holy Grail and Other Poems
(1870 Strahan) (1870 Fields, Osgood)
The May Queen
(c1870 Warne) - illuminated borders by L Summerbell

1871-1880
Gareth and Lynette
(1872 Strahan)
The Prince
(1873 Elliot Stock)
To the Queen
(1873 No printer) - pamphlet
Queen Mary : A Drama
(1875 Henry S King) (1875 Osgood)
The Poetical Works
(1875 H S King) - 5 vols
Harold : A Drama
(1877 H S King) (1877 Osgood, Boston)
Lord of Burghley
(1878 H Johnson, Stamford) - pamphlet
The Lover's Tale
(1879 Kegan Paul)
Ballads and Other Poems
(1880 Macmillan)

1881-1890
Early Spring
(1883 Macmillan)
Becket
(1884 Macmillan)
The Works
(1884 Macmillan) - 7 vols. 1st collected edition
The Works
(1884 Suttaby, Macmillan) - with photographic illus by Payne Jennings
The Cup and the Falcon
(1884 Macmillan)
Tiresias & other Poems
(1885 Macmillan)
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
(1886 Macmillan)
The Brook
(1887 Macmillan)
The Throstle
(1889 Macmillan)
Demeter & Other Poems
(1889 Macmillan)
Demeter Poems
(1889 Macmillan)

1891-1900
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian
(1892 Macmillan) (1892 Macmillan NY)
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, & Other Poems
(1892 Macmillan) - 500 large paper copies
Maud : A Monodrama
(1893 Kelmscott Press) (Ltd ed of 500 in slipcase)
Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale
(1893 London) - pamphlet
The Works
(1898 Macmillan) - 12 vols Ltd Ed of 1050 copies

20thC
In Memoriam
(1900 Vale Press) - decs by Ricketts
Seven Poems and Two Translations
(1902 Doves Press, Hammersmith) - 325
In Memoriam
(1905 Macmillan) - Annotated by the Author
Maud
(1905 Essex House Press) - 125
Tennyson's Suppressed Poems
(1910 Sands, London)
Morte d'Arthur : A Poem
(1912 Chatto & Windus) - Alberto Sangorski
The Idylls of the King
(1912 London) - Eleanor Fortescue Birckdale
Guinevere & other Poems
(1912 Blackie) - Florence Harrison
Maud
(1922 London) - drawings by Edmund J Sullivan
The Devil and the Lady
(Ed by Charles Tennyson) (1930 Macmillan) - 1500 with dustjacket
Unpublished Early Poems
(1931) - edited by Charles Tennyson
In Memoriam
(1933 Nonesuch Press) - 2000. 200 on Van Gelder paper
Idylls of the King
(1952 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1550 signed by Lynd Ward
Idylls of the King & Other Arthurian Poems
(1968 Nonesuch Press) - Aubrey Beardsley
The Poems
(1974 Ltd Eds Club, Cambridge) - 2000 signed by Reynolds Stone
The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1982 Clarendon Press)
- 3 vols. Edited by C Y Lange & E F Shannon jnr
The Idylls of the King
(nd. Hodder & Stoughton) - Eleanor F Brickdale

READING
Richard H Shepherd : Tennysoniana
(1879 Pickering, London 2nd Ed Rev) - Anon
George Somes Layard : Tennyson and His Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators
(1894)
R H Shephard : Tennyson Bibliography - The Published & Privately Printed Writings 1827-94,
with His Contributions to Annuals, Magazines, Newspapers
(1896 for Subscribers, London)
Hallam Tennyson : Alfred Lord Tennyson : A Memoir
(1898 Macmillan) - 4 vols
J C Thomson : Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1905 J Thomson, Warwick)
(1967 Prodes, London. Reprint)
Philip Henderson : Tennyson - Poet and Prophet
(1978 Routledge £6.95)
Robert Bernard Martin : Tennyson - The Unquiet Heart
(1983 Faber £5.95)
Michael Thorn : Tennyson
(1995 Greenwich Exchange Student Guide £6.99)

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