Tennyson
British laureate poet
Tennyson refers to Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the British poet who served as Poet Laureate for over forty years.
His works—*In Memoriam*, *The Charge of the Light Brigade*, *Idylls of the King*—defined Victorian poetry.
The name sometimes stands for elevated, musical verse: He writes like a minor Tennyson.
Of a prim era
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
- verseMetered poetic passage
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
Maud · stanza · meter · blank verse · lyric · ode · epic · sonnet
Ill-fated British cavalry unit
Legendary British royal seat
- GalahadIdeal of noble purity
- MerlinMythical British sorcerer
- ExcaliburMythic British blade
- AvalonMystical island of lore
Lancelot · Guinevere · quest · chivalry · knight · Vivien · Elaine · Gareth
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- BrowningNoted poet's surname
- KeatsEnglish Romantic poet
- ShelleyEnglish Romantic surname
Wordsworth · Rossetti · Pre-Raphaelite · Arnold · Cambridge · queen · empire · mourning
East Midlands county
- Isle of WightIsland in the Solent
- FreshwaterBritish coastal locality
- Westminster AbbeyHistoric London royal church
- CambridgeUniversity city, two countries
Trinity · rectory · England · countryside · coast · cliffs · downs
Victorian
Of a prim era
elegy · Maud · stanza · meter · blank verse · lyric · ode · epic · sonnet · canto
Light Brigade
Ill-fated British cavalry unit
Camelot
Legendary British royal seat
Lancelot · Guinevere · Avalon · quest · chivalry · knight · Vivien · Elaine · Gareth · Lynette
Victorian
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- BrowningNoted poet's surname
- KeatsEnglish Romantic poet
Wordsworth · Shelley · Rossetti · Pre-Raphaelite · Arnold · Cambridge · queen · empire · mourning · sentiment
Lincolnshire
East Midlands county
- Isle of WightIsland in the Solent
- FreshwaterBritish coastal locality
- Westminster AbbeyHistoric London royal church
Cambridge · Trinity · rectory · England · countryside · coast · cliffs · downs
- War Poetrywar poem, war song, battle hymn, In Flanders Fields, Owen
- Arthurian LegendKing Arthur, Merlin, Excalibur, Camelot, Lancelot
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
TennysonByron
Titled Romantic versifier
Shelley · Keats · Wordsworth · Coleridge · Blake
TennysonEzra Pound
T.S. Eliot · Charles Bukowski · Gertrude Stein · Walt Whitman · Allen Ginsberg
TennysonEmily Dickinson