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, ...

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 ...

You are in: Hampshire > Entertainment > Arts and Culture > Arts and Culture Features > Tennyson's bicentenary Alfred, Lord Tennyson August 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth one of the ...

March 1969: One great poet on another – Larkin on Tennyson By Philip Larkin In 1969, Philip Larkin reviewed a new edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems. The New Statesman’s editor at the time, Paul ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, born August 6, 1809, was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland for much of the reign of Queen Victoria. His grandson, Lionel Tennyson, went on to lead Hampshire and ...

“ IF I may venture to speak of his special influence on the world,” writes Lord Hallam Tennyson in the preface to his biography of his father, " my conviction is that its main and enduring factors are ...

The poetic words of Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved in the 2012 Olympic village. But what other notable expressions can be attributed to Tennyson? The last line of Tennyson's monologue Ulysses, ...

A painting of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Richard Caton Woodville, 1894 The Charge of the Light Brigade was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and published in 1854. Tennyson uses a regular ...