Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson was so popular that Queen Victoria herself requested he write "In Memoriam A.H.H.", a deeply personal elegy for his best friend Arthur Henry Hallam.
Tennyson's famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was inspired by a real, albeit disastrous, military charge during the Crimean War, and he was reportedly moved to write it after reading a "mangled" account in a newspaper.
Despite his fame, Tennyson was notoriously shy and often avoided public appearances, preferring the quiet of his home and gardens.
Tennyson's distinctive long hair and beard, which became his signature look, were partly inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite artists who admired his work and often depicted him in their paintings.
Poems
45 poems- A Farewell16 lines
- Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Coming Of Arthur519 lines
- And ask ye why these sad tears stream?26 lines
- Balin and Balan628 lines
- Cradle Song16 lines
- Demeter And Persephone153 lines
- Enoch Arden917 lines
- Gareth And Lynette1430 lines
- Geraint And Enid970 lines
- Guinevere698 lines
- Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead16 lines
- Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt)757 lines
- In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure156 lines
- In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship16 lines
- In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death16 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel16 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun20 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure156 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s12 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave20 lines
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death16 lines
- Locksley Hall194 lines
- Lucretius282 lines
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead?16 lines
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall16 lines
- Move Eastward, Happy Earth12 lines
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty!14 lines
- Of Old Sat Freedom24 lines
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights24 lines
- Pelleas And Ettarre606 lines
- Sea Dreams318 lines
- Spring16 lines
- The Flower24 lines
- The Grandmother135 lines
- The Last Tournament760 lines
- The Marriage Of Geraint849 lines
- The Princess (part 3)367 lines
- The Princess (part 4)583 lines
- The Princess (part 5)558 lines
- The Princess (part 7)351 lines
- The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead16 lines
- The Progress of Spring117 lines
- The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet40 lines
- The Talking Oak300 lines
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias273 lines