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Tennysons central poem is presented with an extensive introduction that provides background information on the poet and poem as well as an overview of In Memoriams formal and thematic peculiarities, including Tennysons use of the stanza and the poems rhyme scheme.
The authoritative text is again that of the Eversley Edition of Tennysons Works, published in 19018, which is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.Criticism contains thirteen essays-seven of which are new to the Second Editionamong them examples of formal (Sarah Gates), contextual (W. David Shaw), reader-response (Timothy Peltason), queer (Jeff Nunokawa), and genre (Alan Sinfield) criticism. A chapter from Christopher Rickss influential biography, Tennyson, is included.
A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index of First Lines are also included.
