POEMS

 

The Charge of the Light Brigade (requires Macromedia Shockwave plug-in)

An amazing experience: 22 seconds of an old wax cylinder recording of Tennyson reading the opening of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Quicktime format)


Demeter and Persephone


The Eagle

Check out the techno music setting of this poem.


Flower in the Crannied Wall


Hendecasyllabics


In Memoriam


The Lady of Shallot

Loreena McKennitt has a lovely rendering of this poem on her CD The Visit


The Lotos-Eaters

You can find Sir Edward Elgar's beautiful setting for one of the songs from this poem in the CD There Is Sweet Music


Lucretius


The Progress of Spring (rtf, 8k)


Recollections Of The Arabian Nights


Song: a spirit haunts...


Tiresias


Tithonus


Ulysses

There is an excellent reading of "Ulysses" by Sir Lewis Casson (2.2mb mp4, 24mb aiff)

Dr. J has created a techno setting of Tennyson's "Ulysses"(3mb mp4, 5mb mp3, 15mb mov, )


Crossing the Bar

Using the Shockwave plug-in you can view a rendering of the last stanza of "Crossing the Bar"


Idylls of the King

The Coming of Arthur

Gareth and Lynette

The Holy Grail

The Last Tournament

The Passing of Arthur



Marbleized page from an 1892 edition of Tennyson's works

 


The Tennyson Page, first created by Arthur Chandler, 1995