The celebrated Victorian author Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) suffered critical persecution in the twentieth century, which nevertheless failed to negate the significance of his poetry in world literature. Tennyson's epic poem about King Arthur "Royal Idylls" gave rise to a real "arturomania" in English art, which does not subside to this day. Unfortunately, the Russian reader knows the name of Tennyson rather than his poems. Thanks to . Kaverin millions of readers remembered a line from his “Ulysses” "Fight and seek, find and not give up", and poetry lovers hear the exclamation of Mandelstam : "Lady Godiva, goodbye... I don't remember Godiva..." This book is, in fact, the first serious edition of the poems of Alfred Tennyson in Russia. It was prepared by the famous poet and researcher of English-language poetry G. M. Working with Young Translators .