Tennyson's poetry epitomizes the Victorian age, for which he became a spokesman. His finest poems are often steeped in a sensuous melancholy, as in Maud, or are chivaric, heroic and allegorical, as in The Lady of Shalot and Morte d'Arthur.

• William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
• Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)
• The Waste Land and Other Poems
• Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
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