Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was a nineteenth-century English poet who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain for over forty years.
His verse—melodic, melancholy, and Victorian in sensibility—includes "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "In Memoriam A.H.H.," and "The Lady of Shalott." Often referred to as Tennyson or Lord Tennyson after receiving his peerage.
- MarianaName for deepest waters
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
- Victorian literature1837-1901 British writing
- UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
Lincolnshire · Romanticism · Maud · British Empire · Queen Victoria · dramatic monologue · Victorian morality · lyricism · nature imagery · imagery · pastoral themes · symbolism · social commentary · Arthurian legend · melancholy tone
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- Arthurian AuthorsGeoffrey of Monmouth
- Cambridge AlumniIsaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell
- Poets LaureateWilliam Wordsworth, Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost
- Victorian PoetsRobert Browning, Browning, Rossetti, Arnold, Hopkins
- VictoriansCharles Dickens, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill
Alfred TennysonEzra Pound
Charles Bukowski · Allen Ginsberg · Walt Whitman · Emily Dickinson · T.S. Eliot
Alfred TennysonAllen Ginsberg
Lord Byron · Percy Bysshe Shelley · William Blake · Charles Baudelaire · Oscar Wilde