Excerpt from A Handbook to the Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Although this Handbook to Tennyson, which retains a few extracts from the preliminary New Studies, may serve in future years as a companion volume to the larger undertaking mentioned above, it has nevertheless been designed as a Complete Introduction to the Works of Tennyson for the present use of the general reader, as well as for the requirements of schools and colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.