Maud, and Other Poems
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cover: April Love (1855-56), oil on canvas by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1915)
In Maud, a morbid young man tells in lyrics of rising and falling mood how he loves the daughter of his father's enemy, kills her brother in a duel, and goes mad before he finds a purpose in the Crimean War. The 1859 volume adds The Brook, The Letters, The Daisy and shorter poems.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.