Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great poem, Ulysses. Show more Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord Tennyson ...

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March 7 - Lines from the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved on to a wall in the Olympic Village to not only inspire athletes competing in 2012, but also future generations of ...

Asked who was the greatest French poet of the 19th century, André Gide cruelly replied, “Victor Hugo, alas!” We might be tempted to say something similar of English poetry: “Tennyson, alas!” Whitman ...

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 line from an Alfred Tennyson poem has been chosen to inspire athletes taking part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", from Ulysses, will ...

March 7 - Lines from the poem "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved on to a wall in the Olympic Village to not only inspire athletes competing in 2012, but also future generations of ...