A NEW work by Tennyson is the best gift that literature has had in her bestowal for these many years ; and this last volume, with its familiar grace and charm, renews the old pleasure. His art has ...

“ THIS dramatic monologue,” as Tennyson describes the title-poem of his latest volume 1 in his dedication of it to his wife, has met with little justice at the hands of the public. Just how much the ...

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

Once enormously popular and much-memorised, this week's poem, Alfred Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade, was also vilified, according to JB Steane, as "horrid rubbish". It's a verdict Steane ...

A digitization of a draft from the Wren Library (above) and a multispectral image processed by Michael Sullivan from raw imaging by Andrew Beeby (below) Master and Fellows of Trinity College, ...

It's sometimes hard to believe how famous Tennyson once was. As Mick Imlah has it in his wry and plangent poem, In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson: "No one remembers you at all." But in his day the ...

Appointed as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria in 1850, Tennyson had a long and fruitful career. Even during his own lifetime he was considered a national institution. The great Victorian poet Alfred, ...

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The poetic words of Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved in the 2012 Olympic village. But what other notable expressions can be attributed to Tennyson? The last line of Tennyson's monologue Ulysses, ...