It is now thirty-four years, since ALFRED TENNYSON, then an undergraduate of Cambridge, just of age, and the recent winner of the Chancellor's medal, for a prize poem, made his first appeal to the ...

The poem, so far as it goes ... Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc. By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. London: Macmillan & Co. 1886.↩ Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day.

Like most writers’ handwritten drafts, the papers of Alfred Tennyson—the 19th ... One of the manuscripts they studied contains Tennyson’s 1847 poem “The Princess.” A line from the ...

In this episode, writer and rapper Testament and poet Jane Weir, compare the context, form and themes of the poems The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Poppies by Jane Weir.

Poet Alfred Tennyson gave English literature some of ... and “our” to “my” as Tennyson deliberated over the poem’s individual versus collective slant. The imaging of “1865–1866 ...

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 ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

MAUD AND OTHER POEMS. By ALFRED TENNYSON. Boston: TICKNOR, REED FIELDS. It is not always permitted to a man to progress in a steadfast way. Poets do not ever move in an ascending spiral ...

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892 ... “official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria,” according to the Poetry Foundation. He was also a “prolific reviser,” who frequently blotted out ...