Maud (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: The Speaker, Maud
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Exile or expatriates, Poetry or poets, England or English people, War, Duels or dueling, Victorian era or Victorianism, Crimean War
- Locales: England
The Story:
Speaking in recollection, the speaker told of his despair in the red-ribbed hollow where his father died, of his rapture in Maud’s high Hall-garden, of his ostracism from the grand political dinner and dance because of the opposition of Maud’s brother, of his killing Maud’s brother in a duel, of his exile on the Breton Coast, of his madness in the London asylum, and, finally, of his pursuit of the blood-red blossom of war aboard a British troop ship on its way to the Black Sea.
The speaker, a twenty-five-year-old unnamed youth, angrily lamented the...
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