Appointed as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria in 1850, Tennyson had a long and fruitful career. Even during his own lifetime he was considered a national institution. The great Victorian poet Alfred, ...
Titles such as “The Lady of Shalott,” “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Ulysses,” and “In Memoriam A.H.H.” gild the pages of countless poetry anthologies. These poems have helped engrave Tennyson’s ...
Although the battle described in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was a military disaster, its conquest of the culture and of the hearts of readers was tremendously ...
An adaptation of Tennyson's "The Falcon", created by Karla and Wesley O. Brustad. The Falcon is a one-act play by renowned poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, adapting Federigo’s Falcon from Giovanni Boccaccio ...
The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones (Courtesy of the Camelot Project) In “To the Queen,” the verse epilogue to his great Arthurian work, Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson ...
For half a century students of Tennyson have depended upon the Memoir and the supplementary Tennyson and His Friends, which were compiled by his son Hallam, and those volumes, with their many letters ...
It's sometimes hard to believe how famous Tennyson once was. As Mick Imlah has it in his wry and plangent poem, In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson: "No one remembers you at all." But in his day the ...
August 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth one of the greats of the poetry world. Alfred, Lord Tennyson moved to west Wight in 1853 and was closest thing the Victorians came to a 'celebrity' ...
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