The brother posted ten excerpts of poems and famous texts, along with a picture of himself with his sister when they were ...

Ever since the inception of this column five years ago, we’ve been borrowing Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s name to use in our title. Today’s piece is a reminder of what a really fine poet he was. As a start ...

When treasure hunters Mario Renner and Henry Westphal turned on their metal detectors in 1999 and started sweeping the ground ...

Alfred was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Alfred excelled at writing short lyrics, as in ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...

While Poe is best remembered today for his tales of psychological terror, he was acclaimed in his own day for his satires, ...

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 ...

Famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson illustrated by James Thurber. When the star was robbed at gunpoint, in 2016, the incident announced her graduation into something greater than a glorified Instagram ...

When Alfred, Lord Tennyson first saw the photograph that his friend Julia Margaret Cameron took of him in May 1865, he joked that he looked like a “dirty monk.” After the portrait was exhibited, a ...