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Poem: 'An old man alone among the crags at night'

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

Dying like Christ: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

Tho’ much is taken, much abides. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ...
The New Yorker

In the News: Olympic Tennyson, Authentic Youths

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." How Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” will inspire athletes at the 2012 Olympic Village. Take a peek at Shel Silverstein's new collection of poems and drawings ...
The Conversation

‘A doubtful gleam of solace’: reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in difficult times

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 ...