Alfred Tennyson’s passionate book-length elegy was once among the most popular poems in English. Today, it shows us how soulful art can stir us to life and stave off banality.

Some years ago I visited the English department of a university in Pakistan and, on entering the chairman’s office, the first thing that caught my eye was a large framed portrait of Alfred ...

Nine years elapsed, when, in 1842, "Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, in two volumes ... questionings of sense and inward things" that makes the perusal of In Memoriam an era in the mental life ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam.In 1850, shortly before his appointment as Poet Laureate, Tennyson published a work which many critics regard as ...

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in this long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasped no more - Behold me, for ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was an English poet and one of the most popular poets of the Victorian Era. He was the longest-serving Poet Laureate of England, a position he enjoyed from 1852 ...

In Memoriam, The Princess, The Idyls of the King, and some parts of Maud ... the dramatic poet; Speckling, Lushington, and Alfred Tennyson, three young men of eminent talent belonging to ...

And grow incorporate into thee. –Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. I’m standing in vacuum atop a dead ravine, idly counting the delicate protrusions of ice that run along the opposite slope ...

Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And drown'd in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, The flocks are ...

Like most writers’ handwritten drafts, the papers of Alfred Tennyson—the 19th-century English poet known for nuggets such as, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved ...