Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892 ... “In Memoriam,” a long poem of 133 cantos of varying length, each written in four-line iambic tetrameter stanzas, was penned as a tribute to a college ...

The poem, so far as it goes ... Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. London: Macmillan & Co. 1886.↩ Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day.

The present Lord Tennyson appears to inherit the paternal ... I am told that my young countrymen would like notes to my poems. Shall I write what dictionaries tell to save some of the idle folk ...

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed ...

I would think so. Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not. Maybe he wanted the line to go faster — more like “Ring-out-wild-bells.” Not sure. Anyway, this poem has been set to music by ...

The most illustrious, however, is Alfred, Lord Tennyson ... by winning the Chancellor’s Gold Medal with his poem Timbuctoo. Not all of Tennyson’s work met with universal acclaim, and he ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - August 6th marks the birthday of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, born in 1809. The Poet Laurete of Great Britain succeeding William Wordsworth wrote poetry from a young age.

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

In this episode, writer and rapper Testament and poet Jane Weir, compare the context, form and themes of the poems The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Poppies by Jane Weir.

It is well to see more of the younger Tennyson, poor, unhappy and care-ridden, who wrote so much of the great poetry. These are only samples of the much fuller detail supplied by the new biography ...