Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors A Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Prefatory Note, Christopher Ricks 1. Tennyson's Dying Fall, Peter McDonald 2. Tennyson's Retrospective View, Dinah Birch 3. Tennyson's Limitations, Christopher Decker 4. Tennyson's Grotesque, Aidan Day 5. Tennyson, Browning, Virgil, Daniel Karlin 6. Tennyson and the Voices of Ovid's Heroines, A. A.

Markley 7. On lines and grooves from Shakespeare to Tennyson, Eric Griffiths 8. Epic Sensibilities: 'Old Man' Milton and the Making of Tennyson's Idylls of the King , N. K. Sugimura 9. The Wheels of Being: Tennyson and Shelley, Michael O'Neill 10. 'Brother-poets': Tennyson and Browning, Donald S. Hair 11.

Friendship, Poetry, and Insurrection: The Kemble Letters, Marion Shaw 12. Tennyson's Humour, Matthew Bevis 13. Edward Lear and Tennyson's Nonsense, Richard Cronin 14. 'Men, my borther, men the workers': Tennyson and the Victorian Working-CLass Poet, Kirstie Blair 15. 'Frater, ave'? Tennyson and Swinburne, Linda K. Hughes 16. After Tennyson: the Presence of the Poet, 1892-1918, Samantha Matthews 17. Tennyson, by Ear, Angela Leighton 18.

Hardy's Tennyson, Helen Small 19. T. S. Eliot and Tennyson, John Morton 20. Tennyson and Auden, John Fuller 21. Betjemen's Tennyson, Seamus Perry Index.