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  TENNYSON - LoveToKnow Article on TENNYSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tennyson was already writing copiouslyan epic of 6000 lines at twelve, a drama in blank verse at fourteen, and so on: these exercises have, very properly, not been printed, but the poet said of them at the close of his life, It seems to me, I wrote them all in perfect metre.
Tennysons health slowly became restored, and in 1846 he was hard at work on The Princess; in the aututnn of this year he took a tour in Switzerland, and saw great mountains and such stateliest bits of landskip for the first time.
Tennyson does not excel each of these in his own special field, but he is often nearer to the particular man in his particular mastery than any one else can be said to be, and he has in addition his own field of supremacy.
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 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire, a rector's son and one of 12 children.
Tennyson and two of his elder brothers were writing poetry in their teens, and a collection of poems by all three was published locally when Alfred was only 17.
He was succeeded as 2nd Baron Tennyson by his son, Hallam, who produced an authorised biography of his father in 1897, and was later the second Governor-General of Australia.
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 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (11 August 1852-2 December 1928), second Governor-General of Australia, was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England.
Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.
None of this was known to the public and Tennyson left Australia in January 1904 to universal expressions of approval.
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 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets.
Tennyson and two of his elder brothers were writing poetry in their teens, and a collection of poems by all three was published locally when Alfred was only seventeen.
It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, being appointed Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth and in the same year producing his masterpiece, In Memoriam A.H.H., dedicated to a friend from his student days, Arthur Hallam, who was to have been married to Tennyson's sister, Emilia.
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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tennyson was the son of an intelligent but unstable clergyman in Lincolnshire.
Tennyson’s next published work, Poems (1842), expressed his philosophic doubts in a materialistic, increasingly scientific age and his longing for a sustaining faith.
Unappreciated early in the 20th cent., Tennyson has since been recognized as a great poet, notable for his mastery of technique, his superb use of sensuous language, and his profundity of thought.
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 Lord Alfred Tennyson - Biography and Works
Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire.
Tennyson died at Aldwort on October 6, 1892 and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, on August 6, 1809.
Tennyson's first long poem after gaining literary recognition was The Princess (1847), a romantic treatment in musical blank verse of the question of women's rights.
Tennyson was made a peer in 1884, taking his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Tennyson of Freshwater and Aldworth.
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 Cordula's Web. Alfred Tennyson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets of all time.
It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, being appointed Poet Laureate in succession to William Wordsworth and in the same year producing his masterpiece, In Memoriam, dedicated to a friend from his student days, Arthur Hallam, who was to have been married to Tennyson's sister, Emilia.
Tennyson's death was widely mourned, and he was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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In 1842 the public were awakened to the fact that Tennyson was in their midst by two volumes of poems that were published at this time.
Tennyson was a teacher, he balanced the old with the new and acted as a mediator between them.
Tennyson's success was perhaps due to the passion he possessed along with his ability to express, using poetry, the intricacies of life clearly.
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 Alfred, Lord Tennyson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It was on this date, August 6,* 1809, that Victorian English poet Alfred, first Baron Tennyson, was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children fathered by a clergyman.
It is commonly assumed that Tennyson was an orthodox believer, but there are strong reasons to conclude that he doubted immortality — his wife quotes him saying, "About a future life we know hardly anything"** — and rejected important Christian doctrines.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, died at Aldworth on 6 October 1892 and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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 Alfred, Lord Tennyson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Tennyson (of Aldworth and Freshwater), Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
In the last half of the 19th century Alfred Tennyson was considered England's greatest poet.
The highly popular poem, published in 1848 and influenced by Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, tells the tale of a knight who decides not to take a journey in search of the Grail after he learns, during the course of a long dream, that the...
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 Alfred Tennyson
Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850; he was appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years.
Tennyson's works were melancholic, and reflected the moral and intellectual values of his time, which made them especially vulnerable for later critic.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire.
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 MSN Encarta - Tennyson
The boy showed an early interest and talent in poetic composition, working original poems in a variety of meters and also successfully imitating the style of such famous poets as Lord Byron, whom he greatly admired.
This collection, containing such works as “Morte d'Arthur,” an idyll based on Arthurian legend; “Locksley Hall”; “Ulysses”; and the poignant lyric “Break, Break, Break,” firmly established Tennyson's position as the foremost poet of his day.
Enormously popular, he was appointed poet laureate of Britain the same year, succeeding William Wordsworth in this honor.
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 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: TENNYSON, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892)
Tennyson published Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830 and Poems in 1832, which were given a mixed reception by several periodicals.
Tennyson received a Civil List pension of £200 per year in 1845 and he was appointed Poet Laureate in 1850.
In June 1855 Tennyson received the degree of DCL from Oxford University.
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 Tennyson, Lord Alfred
Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
Tennyson expressed his grief through the poem In Memoriam, which was published in 1850.
Tennyson greatly avoided public life but nevertheless became one of the most popular and prominent British poets of the Victorian era.
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 Anecdote - Alfred, First Baron ["Lord Tennyson"] Tennyson - Urban Sombrero?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tennyson, famed for his eccentric clothing, could often be seen sporting a swirling Spanish cloak and immense sombrero.
When a friend, enlisted to convey Tennyson's wishes to prime minister Gladstone, suggested that the poet be offered a peerage (entitling him to a place in the House of Lords) rather than a mere baronetcy, Gladstone demurred: "Could I," he asked, "be an accessory to introducing that hat into the House of Lords!?"
Tennyson, Alfred, First Baron ["Lord Tennyson"] (1809-1892) British poet; poet laureate (1850-92) [noted for such works as In Memoriam (an elegiac sequence inspired by the death of his Cambridge friend Arthur Hallam, 1850), The Princess (1847), Maud (1855), and The Idylls of the King (a reworking of Arthurian legend, 1859-85)]
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 Early life and work (from Alfred, Lord Tennyson) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tennyson was the fourth of 12 children, born into an old Lincolnshire family, his father a rector.
Alfred, with two of his brothers, Frederick and Charles, was sent in 1815 to Louth grammar school—where he was unhappy.
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 Waynesburg College Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809 1892 Idylls Of The King
Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809 1892 In Memoriam
Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Baron 1809 1892 Knowledge Psychology
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 Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
~Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, William C. Devane, M.
Tennyson at Aldworth: The Diary of James Henry Mangles
Classical Echoes in Tennyson (Columbia University Studies in English, V. Wilfred P. Mustard, W.
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 AllRefer.com - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron[ten´isun] Pronunciation Key, 1809–92, English poet.
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 Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Notable works and External links.
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 ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Scholarly article discusses Tennyson's attitude towards British Imperialism in Canada in the conclusion of Idylls of the King.
Producing the "Far-Off Interest of Tears": Tennyson, Freud, and the Economics of Mourning, by Gerhard Joseph.
"What made Tennyson so Victorian was his ready acceptance of the mores of his day, his willingness to conform to popular taste, to write a poetry that was easily understood and enjoyed (something that Robert Browning never could, or would, do, although he often said he wanted to).
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This is one of the best collections of Tennyson's poems I have ever read.
Tennyson's wonderful poems are artfully compiled into this book.
I would recommend it to anyone who loves Tennyson's poetry or just wants to see what its all about.
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 Encyclopedia: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson
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It was partly for Hallam's benefit that Alfred Tennyson accepted a peerage in 1884, the year Hallam married Audrey Boyle (after being disappointed in his love for William Ewart Gladstone's daughter, Mary).
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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron: Mature Works and Later Life
an elegy sequence that records Tennyson's years of doubt and despair after Hallam's death and culminates in an affirmation of immortality.
appeared in 1859; it was expanded in 1869 and 1872, and in 1885 Tennyson added the final poem.
In 1883 he was created a peer and occupied a seat in the House of Lords.
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 Poets Laureate - The LAUREATESHIP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Wordsworth admired Tennyson and saw him as the first of their living poets.
After Tennyson died in 1892, it was decided that the title 'Laureate' would again be more of a gift of the Universities.
It was determined that it should be a dignity given to all who had achieved a high standard of poetic distinction rather than to bestow it upon just a few elite poets.
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 Tennyson Charge Of The Light Brigade. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Creation Of Machine-readab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Tennyson Society Registered Charity no. The Annual Lecture will be given by Helen Small of Pembroke College, Oxford and will be on Tennyson and old age.
Tennyson does not excel each of these in his own special field, but he is often nearer to the particular man in his particular mastery than anyone else can be.
Alfred Tennyson was born 5 August1 1809, third surviving child of the Rev. Poetry of Alfred Tennyson; full-text poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, at everypoet.
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 Find in a Library: Many glancing colours : an essay in reading Tennyson, 1809-1850
Subjects: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, -- Baron, -- 1809-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, -- Baron, -- 1809-1892 -- Critique et interprétation.
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 NPG 3940; Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate.
in the 1950s and is generally accepted as being by James Spedding, who made a similar, informal drawing of Tennyson reading in 1835.
Tennyson and Spedding met as undergraduates at Trinity College, Cambridge and remained close friends until Spedding's death in 1881.
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