This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ...

This column is dedicated to my dear friend, Ron Hull, who introduced me to the prairie poetry of Willa Cather. Ron, who is no ...

Quester, cad, or both? Reimagining an epic hero who could not rest from travel. Poem: ‘An Old Man Alone Among the Crags at ...

But here, suddenly, in the Dedicatory Poem to the dead Princess Alice, prefixed to the ballad, we strike at once upon the genuine Tennyson, the Tennyson of an earlier time, in all the strength of deep ...

This is the definitive anthology to date of canonical poets reading short selections of their own work. Though some of the audio here has been widely available for decades, it is certainly exciting to ...

The last line of Tennyson's poem Ulysses, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" were nominated by the public and chosen by a panel which included Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and author ...

A digitization of a draft from the Wren Library (above) and a multispectral image processed by Michael Sullivan from raw imaging by Andrew Beeby (below) Master and Fellows of Trinity College, ...

A portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Samuel Laurence and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, circa 1840. Wikimedia Commons Alfred Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses”, was, he tells us, written under a sense of loss ...

Love is something we carefully protect, but in the end, we will see that love was there all along, protecting us. Easter ...

Tennyson's In Memoriam is probably something all poetry lovers have grown up reading. This profound elegy written at the death of a friend carries the deepest emotions of life and some really precious ...