Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Narrator: Denis Daly
Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 02/13/2024
This collection contains several of Tennyson’s best-known poems and shows his mastery of both lyricism and epic narrative.Contents:“The Epic - Morte d’Arthur”“The Gardener’s Daughter, or The Pictures”“Dora”“The Talking Oak”“Love and Duty”“Ulysses”“Locksley Hall”“Godiva” The Day-dream”“St. Agnes’ Eve”“Sir Galahad”“To ___, after reading a Life and Letters”“Lady Clare”“The Lord of Burleigh”“Come not, when I am dead”“The Beggar Maid”“A Farewell”“The Eagle”“Break, break, break”“Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”“The Charge of the Light Brigade”“The Brook. An Idyll”“The Daisy”“To the Rev. F. D. Maurice”“Will”“Tithonus”
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