Tennyson served as the United Kingdom’s poet laureate from 1850 to 1892, making him the “official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria,” according to the Poetry Foundation. He was also ...

In 1850 Tennyson published In Memoriam AHH. The poem was dedicated to his late friend Arthur Hallam. It was a favourite of Queen Victoria, who said the book helped to comfort her after her husband ...