The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic, whose grief-soaked early verse still dazzles and unsettles.

Tennyson was prolific, prodigious. He rumbled with poetry; he recited it endlessly; it poured off him on long walks. Language teemed inside him, especially when he was a young man, producing verse so ...

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes is an enthralling biography of Alfred Tennyson in his youth.

Not since the first world war has there been anything approaching the quality and quantity of work by poets who are also combatants.

On the literary shrine tucked away in the grand old Anglican church in London that’s most famous for being the site of coronations and royal weddings ...

“I shall use my time.” – 🎬 Skyfall (2012) This line comes from one of the most poignant moments in the James Bond franchise.

The most sensual pictures of women sprang from Ovid's verses, the Aeneid gave Turner his longest-lasting subject matter and ...

The British singer and actress died at age 78 in January 2025 ...

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Our patriarch, a man of uncommon grit and courage, moved on to the higher realm on 24 February, 2024, taking with him a time; the time-hallowed golden era of result-oriented, honest, hard, work. Chief ...

Tucked away in North Somerset lies a stunning clifftop trail just over a mile long with beautiful views across the Bristol ...

Visitors describe a North Somerset walking trail as a "spectacular" clifftop route offering stunning views across the Bristol Channel to the Welsh coast ...