THIS dramatic monologue,” as Tennyson describes the title-poem of his latest volume 1 in his dedication of it to his wife, has met with little justice at the hands of the public. Just how much ...

It is not necessary to speak of the other poems in detail, one by one. Perhaps the most attractive of those in the body of the volume is the rendering of Tennyson ... long list of his songs ...

Tennyson served as the United Kingdom’s poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, making him the “official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria,” according to the Poetry Foundation. He was also ...

(Paradise Lost, Book VI.) This note is an example of Tennyson's annotations. They are not very important to the lover of poetry as such. But they are of great biographical value. Fancy a poet ...

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Here are 10 other quotes by Tennyson that may ring a bell. 1. "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die." From The Charge of the Light Brigade, the poem tells of the famous and brutal ...