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Tennyson, Alfred

Born Aug. 6, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire; died Oct. 6, 1892, in Aldworth, Surrey. English poet.

Tennyson studied at Cambridge University. His first works were published in the late 1820’s, but not until the publication of his two-volume collection Poems in 1842 did Tennyson achieve popular success. Tennyson’s most significant work is Idylls of the King (1859), a cycle of poems based on medieval legends about King Arthur and the Round Table. In addition to poetry, Tennyson also wrote plays, including Queen Mary (1875) and Harold (1876). Sentimental in nature, Tennyson’s poetry is outstanding for its musicality and picturesqueness. Its conservative tendencies guaranteed Tennyson’s popularity with the bourgeois reader. Tennyson’s poetry has been translated into Russian by A. N. Pleshcheev, M. L. Mikhailov, and S. Ia. Marshak.

WORKS

Poetical Works, Including the Plays. London-New York-Oxford, [1953],
In Russian translation:
Korolevskie idilii, vols. 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1903–04.

REFERENCES

Istoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 2, fasc. 2. Moscow, 1955.
Leavis, F. R. New Bearings in English Poetry. Harmondsworth, 1972.
Benson, A. Alfred Tennyson. New York, 1969.
Ricks, C. Tennyson. [New York, 1972.]
Tennyson. Edited by D. J. Palmer. London, 1973.

References in periodicals archive

Writing to the Tennysons, Lear provided a 'little' description of three pages long, explaining how this 'single line' of 'that greatest of Word=landscape=painters, Alfred Tennyson, has placed a well known scene once before me [...] in the almost reality of recollection':

MOVING LINES: As he encountered foreign landscapes, Edward Lear recalled lines from the poems of Tennyson, which in turn came to haunt his art--and which spurred him to begin an obsessive project that he would never be able to complete

Cameron was a narrative photographer, often choosing titles that suggest a hidden plot, whether directly (as in the series requested by her friend Alfred Tennyson to illustrate his Idylls of the King), or more allusively.

In the family: representations of Jewishness by Virginia Woolf and Julia Margaret Cameron

An audit of the variety of influences on 11-year-olds in this media-rich age compared starkly with the confines of 11-year-old Alfred Tennyson's isolation in 1820.

The Tennyson Research Centre

Using Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Lotus Eaters" as a metaphor for Vancouver's culture, Rotberg portrays Vancouver as a city of greed, narcissism, and consumerism whose inhabitants exhibit an inauthentic progressivism that ignores issues of morality and social justice.

Rotberg, Howard. Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada's Lotus Land

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Rhyme and the reason! TVChoice

Since then, the post has been filled by such figures as William Wordsworth, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Bridges and, lately, Ted Hughes and Andrew Motion, who served for the newly reduced term of 10 years rather than life.

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The ring was originally a gift to Dickens from the famous poet Alfred Tennyson.

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A DIAMOND ring given to the author Charles Dickens by his poet friend Lord Alfred Tennyson is due to be auctioned.

Dickens' ring

About what did Alfred Tennyson write: "Into the jaws of death/Into the mouth of Hell."?

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