The Poetry of Tennyson : Yale University Press : 9780300020847 : 0300020848 : 14 Mar 2016 : This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the entire range of Tennyson's poetry, with emphasis on the great period up to and including In Memoriam, but also with chapters on Maud, the Idylls of the King, and the best of the later poems.  Taking the view that every poem contains its own literary history, Dwight Culler traces Tennyson's evolving image of himself as a poet and the relation of this image to changing literary structures.  He particularly emphasizes the ?frame? device by which Tennyson first mediated between himself and the world and then, inverting it, placed himself in the world.  He also explores the longer ?composted? poem by which Tennyson declared himself a Victorian Alexandrian.    Eschewing the autobiographical emphasis of recent years, Culler provides readings of Maud, Locksley Hall, The Palace of Art, Tithonus, and the Idylls of the King that depart significantly