Maud, and Other Poems by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
"Maud, and Other Poems" by Baron Alfred Tennyson is a poetry collection published in 1855. The title poem follows an emotionally unstable narrator who falls passionately in love with Maud, transforming his despair into obsession. When her brother forbids their contact and arranges a rival suitor, passion turns to violence. A duel, death, and madness follow, leaving the narrator psychologically shattered. Told through shifting meters that mirror the speaker's manic-depressive state, this
disturbing monodrama explores identity, grief, and Victorian anxieties through fragments of sensation rather than linear narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Maud -- The brook; an idyl -- The letters -- Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington -- The daisy, written at Edinburgh -- The Rev. F. D. Maurice -- Will -- The charge of the Light Brigade.
Reading Level
Reading ease score: 75.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
