Tennyson

by Peter Levi

Book Overview

Idylls of the King,"" ""Maude,"" and ""In Memoriam"" describes his close friendship with actress Ellen Terry, satirist Edward Lear, and Queen Victoria, his childhood, and his work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068419662X
• ISBN13: 9780684196626
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Not the best bio of a most interesting person

Back in May of 1981 I read Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart, by Robert Bernard Martin, and I thought that was the perfect biography. Because I had such good memories of that great book, I decided to read this bio by Peter Levi. It does a good job, but whether I am not as interested in Tennyson as I was in 1981 or what, I did not enjoy the book as much. In my youth I committed to memory a few of Tennyson's poems (including Locksley Hall) and that memorization has been a source of enjoymnet to me for many years.