| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One "The Palace of Art": the Speaker and the Poet | 第15-23页 |
| ·Interpretations of "The Palace of Art" | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Change of the Speaker's Degree of Involvement in the Poem | 第17-19页 |
| ·The Artist in the Poem, the Poet, the Speaker | 第19-20页 |
| ·"The Palace of Art": the Beginning of Tennyson's Spiritual Growth | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Two In Memoriam: the Speaker and the Poet | 第23-39页 |
| ·Emotional Evolvement: Impersonal Hearers and Hallam as the Hearer | 第24-29页 |
| ·Spiritual Evolvement: Singular Hearer "I" and Plural Hearer "We" | 第29-35页 |
| ·The Nature of Tennyson's Faith | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter Three Idylls of the King: the Narrator and the Poet | 第39-51页 |
| ·Congruities between In Memoriam and Idylls of the King | 第39-44页 |
| ·Innovations in the Narrative of Idylls of the King | 第44-51页 |
| Conclusion | 第51-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-57页 |
