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

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

It’s a fair question, since Alfred Tennyson is typically associated with the sort of sonorous, ringing verse you’d expect ...

And surely we all agree: no poets have plumbed the depths of l’amour with finer acuity than Alfred Lord Tennyson and British prog rockers Yes. And yet these inspired bards arrived at paradoxical ...

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 ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens.

March 1969: One great poet on another – Larkin on Tennyson By Philip Larkin In 1969, Philip Larkin reviewed a new edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems. The New Statesman’s editor at the time, Paul ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Biographer Richard Holmes specialises in seeing familiar figures from a new slant. Shelley: The Pursuit (1974) ...

This tragic and cataclysmic event for the British military shocked the public and inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson to write his stirring poem of the events just 6 weeks after the event occurred.