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| Alfred Tennyson |
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet
Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular poets in
the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "In the valley of
Cauteretz", "Break, break, break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, idle
tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical
mythological themes, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to
commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at
Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died
from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote
some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus.
During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little
success in his lifetime.
Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that've become commonplaces of the
English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have
loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, /
Theirs but to do and die", and "My strength's as the strength of ten, / Because
my heart's pure". He's the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
Partial list of works
• From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830):
o The Dying Swan
o The Kraken
o Mariana
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
• From Poems (1833):
o
o The Lady of Shalott (1832, 1842)
• From Poems (1842):
o Locksley Hall
o Tithonus
o Vision of Sin
o The Two Voices (1834)
o "Ulysses" (1833)
• The Princess (1847)
o "Tears, Idle Tears"
• In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
• Ring Out, Wild Bells (1850)
• The Eagle (1851)
• The Sister's Shame
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) - an early recording exists of
Tennyson reading this
• Maud (1855/1856)
• Enoch Arden (1862/1864)
• Flower in the crannied wall (1869)
• The Window - Song cycle with Arthur Sullivan. (1871)
• Harold (1876) - began a revival of interest in King Harold
• Idylls of the King (composed 1833-1874)
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
• Crossing the Bar (1889)
• The Foresters - a play with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan (1891)
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - it appeared as a song in the film Vanity
Fair, with musical arrangement by Mychael Danna
Laureate of the United Kingdom and remains one of the most popular poets in
the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, including "In the valley of
Cauteretz", "Break, break, break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, idle
tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical
mythological themes, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to
commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at
Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died
from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote
some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus.
During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little
success in his lifetime.
Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that've become commonplaces of the
English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have
loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, /
Theirs but to do and die", and "My strength's as the strength of ten, / Because
my heart's pure". He's the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.
Partial list of works
• From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830):
o The Dying Swan
o The Kraken
o Mariana
• Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1832)
• From Poems (1833):
o
o The Lady of Shalott (1832, 1842)
• From Poems (1842):
o Locksley Hall
o Tithonus
o Vision of Sin
o The Two Voices (1834)
o "Ulysses" (1833)
• The Princess (1847)
o "Tears, Idle Tears"
• In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)
• Ring Out, Wild Bells (1850)
• The Eagle (1851)
• The Sister's Shame
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) - an early recording exists of
Tennyson reading this
• Maud (1855/1856)
• Enoch Arden (1862/1864)
• Flower in the crannied wall (1869)
• The Window - Song cycle with Arthur Sullivan. (1871)
• Harold (1876) - began a revival of interest in King Harold
• Idylls of the King (composed 1833-1874)
• Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
• Crossing the Bar (1889)
• The Foresters - a play with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan (1891)
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - it appeared as a song in the film Vanity
Fair, with musical arrangement by Mychael Danna
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