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href="#Tennyson_and_the_Queen"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Tennyson and the Queen</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tennyson_and_the_Queen-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_art_of_Tennyson's_poetry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_art_of_Tennyson's_poetry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>The art of Tennyson's poetry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_art_of_Tennyson's_poetry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Influence_on_Pre-Raphaelite_artists" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Influence_on_Pre-Raphaelite_artists"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Influence on Pre-Raphaelite artists</span> </div> </a> <ul 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settings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Musical_settings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="ألفريد تنيسون – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ألفريد تنيسون" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennison" title="Alfred Tennison – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Alfred Tennison" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="آلفرد تنیسون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="آلفرد تنیسون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A1,_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8" title="আলফ্রেড, লর্ড টেনিসন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আলফ্রেড, লর্ড টেনিসন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Альфрэд Тэнісан – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Альфрэд Тэнісан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1,_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8" title="अल्फ्रेड, लार्ड टेनिसन – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="अल्फ्रेड, लार्ड टेनिसन" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Алфред Тенисън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Алфред Тенисън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Альфред Теннисон – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Альфред Теннисон" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Arglwydd_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Arglwydd Tennyson – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Alfred, Arglwydd Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson,_1._Baron_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson, 1. Baron Tennyson – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Alfred Tennyson, 1. Baron Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%BB%CF%86%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84_%CE%A4%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%BD%CF%85%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD" title="Άλφρεντ Τέννυσον – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Άλφρεντ Τέννυσον" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="آلفرد تنیسون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آلفرد تنیسون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AC%EB%93%9C_%ED%85%8C%EB%8B%88%EC%8A%A8_%EA%B2%BD" title="앨프리드 테니슨 경 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="앨프리드 테니슨 경" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D6%86%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A4_%D4%B9%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Ալֆրեդ Թեննիսոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ալֆրեդ Թեննիսոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8" title="अल्फ्रेड टेनिसन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अल्फ्रेड टेनिसन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F" title="אלפרד טניסון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלפרד טניסון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AB%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಆಲ್ಫ್ರೆಡ್ ಲಾರ್ಡ್ ಟೆನ್ನಿಸನ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಆಲ್ಫ್ರೆಡ್ ಲಾರ್ಡ್ ಟೆನ್ನಿಸನ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredus_Tennyson" title="Alfredus Tennyson – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Alfredus Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%86%E0%B5%BD%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BA" title="ആൽഫ്രെഡ് ലോർഡ് ടെനിസൺ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ആൽഫ്രെഡ് ലോർഡ് ടെനിസൺ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8" title="आल्फ्रेड लॉर्ड टेनिसन – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="आल्फ्रेड लॉर्ड टेनिसन" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A4%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%93_%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ალფრედ ტენისონი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ალფრედ ტენისონი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="الفريد تنيسون – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الفريد تنيسون" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%B2%E1%80%96%E1%80%9B%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%9C%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B7_%E1%80%90%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%AE%E1%80%86%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA" title="အဲဖရက် လော့ တင်နီဆန် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အဲဖရက် လော့ တင်နီဆန်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3" title="アルフレッド・テニスン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アルフレッド・テニスン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A1_%E0%A8%9F%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A8" title="ਅਲਫ਼ਰੈਡ ਟੈਨੀਸਨ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਅਲਫ਼ਰੈਡ ਟੈਨੀਸਨ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86" title="ایلفریڈ ٹینیسن – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ایلفریڈ ٹینیسن" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4" title="Теннисон, Альфред – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Теннисон, Альфред" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Alfred, Lord Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D" title="ஆல்பிரட் டென்னிசன் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஆல்பிரட் டென்னிசன்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D" title="టెన్నిసన్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="టెన్నిసన్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%94_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99_%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88_1" title="อัลเฟรด เทนนีสัน บารอนเทนนีสันที่ 1 – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="อัลเฟรด เทนนีสัน บารอนเทนนีสันที่ 1" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Альфред Теннісон – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Альфред Теннісон" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%88_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%86" title="الفریڈ ٹینی سن – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="الفریڈ ٹینی سن" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" title="Alfred Tennyson – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Alfred Tennyson" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>West-Vlams</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%81%E5%B0%BC%E7%94%9F" title="丁尼生 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="丁尼生" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E4%BD%9B%E7%83%88%C2%B7%E4%B8%81%E5%B0%BC%E7%94%9F" title="阿佛烈·丁尼生 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="阿佛烈·丁尼生" 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href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Victoria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Austin" title="Alfred Austin">Alfred Austin</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lords_Temporal" title="Lords Temporal">Lord Temporal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 March 1884 – 6 October 1892<br /><a href="/wiki/Hereditary_peer" title="Hereditary peer">Hereditary Peerage</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson" title="Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson">Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">6 August 1809<br /><a href="/wiki/Somersby,_Lincolnshire" title="Somersby, Lincolnshire">Somersby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincolnshire, England">Lincolnshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 October 1892<span style="display:none">(1892-10-06)</span> (aged 83)<br /><a href="/wiki/Lurgashall" title="Lurgashall">Lurgashall</a>, Sussex, England<sup id="cite_ref-UKLB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UKLB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div 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href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson" title="Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson">Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson</a></li><li>Lionel</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a> (no degree)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">Poet Laureate</a> (1850–1892)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span>; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. He was the <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">Poet Laureate</a> during much of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>'s reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor%27s_Gold_Medal" title="Chancellor's Gold Medal">Chancellor's Gold Medal</a> at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, <i><a href="/wiki/Poems,_Chiefly_Lyrical" title="Poems, Chiefly Lyrical">Poems, Chiefly Lyrical</a></i>, in 1830. "<a href="/wiki/Claribel_(poem)" title="Claribel (poem)">Claribel</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Mariana_(poem)" title="Mariana (poem)">Mariana</a>", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his poems ultimately proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the <a href="/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood" title="Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</a>. </p><p>Tennyson also focused on short lyrics, such as "<a href="/wiki/Break,_Break,_Break" title="Break, Break, Break">Break, Break, Break</a>", "<a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)">The Charge of the Light Brigade</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Tears,_Idle_Tears" title="Tears, Idle Tears">Tears, Idle Tears</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Crossing_the_Bar" title="Crossing the Bar">Crossing the Bar</a>". Much of his verse was based on <a href="/wiki/Classical_mythology" title="Classical mythology">classical</a> mythological themes, such as "<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>". "<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>" was written to commemorate his friend <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hallam" title="Arthur Hallam">Arthur Hallam</a>, a fellow poet and student at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>, after he died of a stroke at the age of 22.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson also wrote notable <a href="/wiki/Blank_verse" title="Blank verse">blank verse</a>, including <i><a href="/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King" title="Idylls of the King">Idylls of the King</a></i>, "Ulysses", and "<a href="/wiki/Tithonus_(poem)" title="Tithonus (poem)">Tithonus</a>". During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success. </p><p>A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplace in the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" ("In Memoriam A.H.H."), "'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", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_Quotations" title="The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations">The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Tennyson was born on 6 August 1809 in <a href="/wiki/Somersby,_Lincolnshire" title="Somersby, Lincolnshire">Somersby, Lincolnshire</a>, England.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was born into a successful middle-class family of minor landowning status distantly descended from <a href="/wiki/John_Savage,_2nd_Earl_Rivers" title="John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers">John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Francis_Leke,_1st_Earl_of_Scarsdale" title="Francis Leke, 1st Earl of Scarsdale">Francis Leke, 1st Earl of Scarsdale</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg/170px-W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg/255px-W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg/340px-W.E.F._Britten_-_The_Early_Poems_of_Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_-_The_Garden_at_Somersby_Rectory.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5373" data-file-height="7312" /></a><figcaption>An illustration by <a href="/wiki/William_Edward_Frank_Britten" title="William Edward Frank Britten">W. E. F. Britten</a> showing Somersby Rectory, where Tennyson was raised and began writing</figcaption></figure><p> His father, George Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was an Anglican clergyman who served as rector of Somersby (1807–1831), also rector of <a href="/wiki/Benniworth" title="Benniworth">Benniworth</a> (1802–1831) and <a href="/wiki/Bag_Enderby" title="Bag Enderby">Bag Enderby</a>, and vicar of <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> (1815). He raised a large family and "was a man of superior abilities and varied attainments, who tried his hand with fair success in architecture, painting, music, and poetry. He was comfortably well off for a country clergyman, and his shrewd money management enabled the family to spend summers at <a href="/wiki/Mablethorpe" title="Mablethorpe">Mablethorpe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skegness" title="Skegness">Skegness</a> on the eastern coast of England". George Clayton Tennyson was elder son of attorney and <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">MP</a> George Tennyson (1749/50-1835), <a href="/wiki/Magistrate_(England_and_Wales)" title="Magistrate (England and Wales)">JP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deputy_lieutenant" title="Deputy lieutenant">DL</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Tealby#Bayons_Manor" title="Tealby">Bayons Manor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Usselby" title="Usselby">Usselby</a> Hall, who had also inherited the estates of his mother's family, the Claytons, and married Mary, daughter and heiress of John Turner, of <a href="/wiki/Caistor" title="Caistor">Caistor</a>, Lincolnshire. George Clayton Tennyson was however pushed into a career in the church and passed over as heir in favour of his younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Tennyson_d%27Eyncourt" title="Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt">Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alfred Tennyson's mother, Elizabeth (1781–1865), was the daughter of Stephen Fytche (1734–1799), vicar of <a href="/wiki/St._James_Church,_Louth" class="mw-redirect" title="St. James Church, Louth">St. James Church, Louth</a> (1764) and rector of <a href="/wiki/Withcall" title="Withcall">Withcall</a> (1780), a small village between <a href="/wiki/Horncastle,_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Horncastle, Lincolnshire">Horncastle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louth,_Lincolnshire" title="Louth, Lincolnshire">Louth</a>. Tennyson's father "carefully attended to the education and training of his children". </p><p>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. One of those brothers, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Tennyson_Turner" title="Charles Tennyson Turner">Charles Tennyson Turner</a>, later married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's <a href="/wiki/Emily_Tennyson,_Lady_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson">future wife</a>; the other was <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Tennyson" title="Frederick Tennyson">Frederick Tennyson</a>. Another of Tennyson's brothers, Edward Tennyson, was institutionalised at a private asylum. </p><p> The noted psychologist <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, in his book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience" title="The Varieties of Religious Experience">The Varieties of Religious Experience</a></i>, quoted Tennyson concerning a type of experience with which Tennyson was familiar: </p><blockquote><p>"A kind of waking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has often come upon me through repeating my own name. All at once, as it were out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, individuality itself seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state but the clearest, the surest of the sure, utterly beyond words…"<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education_and_first_publication">Education and first publication</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Education and first publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StatueOfTennyson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/StatueOfTennyson.jpg/170px-StatueOfTennyson.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/StatueOfTennyson.jpg/255px-StatueOfTennyson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/StatueOfTennyson.jpg/340px-StatueOfTennyson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Lord Tennyson in the chapel of <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Tennyson was a student of <a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VI_Grammar_School,_Louth" title="King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth">King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth</a> from 1816 to 1820.<sup id="cite_ref-Parsons_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parsons-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He entered <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>, in 1827, where he joined a secret society called the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Apostles" title="Cambridge Apostles">Cambridge Apostles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A portrait of Tennyson by <a href="/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts" title="George Frederic Watts">George Frederic Watts</a> is in Trinity's collection.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Cambridge, Tennyson met <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hallam" title="Arthur Hallam">Arthur Hallam</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Brookfield" title="William Henry Brookfield">William Henry Brookfield</a>, who became his closest friends. His first publication was a collection of "his boyish rhymes and those of his elder brother Charles" entitled <i>Poems by Two Brothers</i>, published in 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-Parsons_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parsons-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor%27s_Gold_Medal" title="Chancellor's Gold Medal">Chancellor's Gold Medal</a> at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reportedly, "it was thought to be no slight honour for a young man of twenty to win the chancellor's gold medal".<sup id="cite_ref-Parsons_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parsons-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He published his first solo collection of poems, <i>Poems Chiefly Lyrical</i> in 1830. "<a href="/wiki/Claribel_(poem)" title="Claribel (poem)">Claribel</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Mariana_(poem)" title="Mariana (poem)">Mariana</a>", which later took their place among Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge" title="Samuel Taylor Coleridge">Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Lincolnshire,_second_publication,_Epping_Forest"><span id="Return_to_Lincolnshire.2C_second_publication.2C_Epping_Forest"></span>Return to Lincolnshire, second publication, Epping Forest</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Return to Lincolnshire, second publication, Epping Forest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the spring of 1831, Tennyson's father died, requiring him to leave <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a> before taking his degree. He returned to the rectory, where he was permitted to live for another six years and shared responsibility for his widowed mother and the family. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hallam" title="Arthur Hallam">Arthur Hallam</a> came to stay with his family during the summer and became engaged to Tennyson's sister, Emilia Tennyson. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Lady_of_Shalott_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4180" data-file-height="3208" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse" title="John William Waterhouse">John William Waterhouse</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott_(painting)" title="The Lady of Shalott (painting)">The Lady of Shalott</a></i>, 1888 (<a href="/wiki/Tate_Britain" title="Tate Britain">Tate Britain</a>, London)</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:285px; ; color: #202122;background-color: #FFFFF0;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> <p><i><b>The May Queen</b></i><br /> <br /> YOU must wake and call me early, call me early, <br />      mother dear;<br /> To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad <br />      new-year, -<br /> Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, <br />      merriest day;<br /> For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to <br />      be Queen o' the May.<br /> <br /> As I came up the valley, whom think ye should <br />      I see<br /> But Robin leaning on the bridge beneath the <br />      hazel-tree?<br /> He thought of that sharp look, mother, I gave <br />      him yesterday, -<br /> But I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to <br />      be Queen o' the May.<br /> <br /> They say he's dying all for love, - but that can <br />      never be;<br /> They say his heart is breaking, mother, - what <br />      is that to me?<br /> There's many a bolder lad 'll woo me any sum-<br />      mer day;<br /> And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to <br />      be Queen o' the May.<br /> <br /> If I can, I'll come again, mother, from out my <br />      resting-place;<br /> Though you'll not see me, mother, I shall look <br />      upon your face;<br /> Though I cannot speak a word, I shall hearken <br />      what you say,<br /> And be often, often with you when you think I'm <br />      far away. <br /> <br /> So now I think my time is near; I trust it is. <br />      I know<br /> The blessed music went that way my soul will <br />      have to go.<br /> And for myself, indeed, I care not if I go to-day;<br /> But Effie, you must comfort her when I am past <br />      away.<br /> <br /> And say to Robin a kind word, and tell him not <br />      to fret;<br /> There's many worthier than I, would make him <br />      happy yet.<br /> If I had lived - I cannot tell - I might have <br />      been his wife;<br /> But all these things have ceased to be, with my <br />      desire of life.<br /> <br /> Forever and forever, all in a blessed home,<br /> And there to wait a little while till you and <br />      Effie come, -<br /> To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your <br />      breast, -<br /> And the wicked cease from troubling, and the <br />      weary are at rest. </p> </div> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="right-aligned" style=""><i>From "The May Queen" poem by Alfred Tennyson</i><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>In 1833 Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which notably included the first version of "<a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott" title="The Lady of Shalott">The Lady of Shalott</a>". The volume met heavy criticism, which so discouraged Tennyson that he did not publish again for ten years, although he did continue to write. That same year, Hallam died suddenly and unexpectedly after suffering a <a href="/wiki/Cerebral_haemorrhage" class="mw-redirect" title="Cerebral haemorrhage">cerebral haemorrhage</a> while on a holiday in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>. Hallam's death had a profound effect on Tennyson and inspired several poems, including "In the Valley of Cauteretz" and "<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>", a long poem detailing the "Way of the Soul".<sup id="cite_ref-H._Tennyson,_1897_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H._Tennyson,_1897-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tennyson and his family were allowed to stay in the rectory for some time, but later moved to Beech Hill Park, <a href="/wiki/High_Beach" title="High Beach">High Beach</a>, deep within <a href="/wiki/Epping_Forest" title="Epping Forest">Epping Forest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Essex, England">Essex</a>, about 1837. Tennyson's son recalled: "there was a pond in the park on which in winter my father might be seen skating, sailing about on the ice in his long blue cloak. He liked the nearness of London, whither he resorted to see his friends, but he could not stay in town even for a night, his mother being in such a nervous state that he did not like to leave her...".<sup id="cite_ref-H._Tennyson,_1897_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H._Tennyson,_1897-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson befriended a Dr Allen, who ran a nearby asylum whose patients then included the poet <a href="/wiki/John_Clare" title="John Clare">John Clare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An unwise investment in Dr Allen's ecclesiastical wood-carving enterprise soon led to the loss of much of the family fortune, and led to a bout of serious depression.<sup id="cite_ref-H._Tennyson,_1897_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H._Tennyson,_1897-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Tennyson's grandson <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Charles Tennyson">Sir Charles Tennyson</a>, Tennyson met <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a> in 1839, if not earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pair began a lifelong friendship, and were famous smoking companions. Some of Tennyson's work even bears the influence of Carlyle and his ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson moved to London in 1840 and lived for a time at <a href="/wiki/Chapel_House,_Twickenham" title="Chapel House, Twickenham">Chapel House, Twickenham</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_publication">Third publication</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Third publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 14 May 1842, while living modestly in London, Tennyson published the two volume <i><a href="/wiki/Poems_(Tennyson,_1842)" title="Poems (Tennyson, 1842)">Poems</a></i>, of which the first included works already published and the second was made up almost entirely of new poems. They met with immediate success; poems from this collection, such as "<a href="/wiki/Locksley_Hall" title="Locksley Hall">Locksley Hall</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Break,_Break,_Break" title="Break, Break, Break">Break, Break, Break</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>", and a new version of "<a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott" title="The Lady of Shalott">The Lady of Shalott</a>", have met enduring fame. "<a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)" title="The Princess (Tennyson poem)">The Princess: A Medley</a>", a satire on women's education that came out in 1847, was also popular for its lyrics. <a href="/wiki/W._S._Gilbert" title="W. S. Gilbert">W. S. Gilbert</a> later adapted and parodied the piece twice: in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(play)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Princess (play)">The Princess</a></i> (1870) and in <i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Ida" title="Princess Ida">Princess Ida</a></i> (1884). </p><p>It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, finally publishing his masterpiece, "<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>", dedicated to Hallam. Later the same year, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate" class="mw-redirect" title="Poet Laureate">Poet Laureate</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>. In the same year (on 13 June), Tennyson married <a href="/wiki/Emily_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Tennyson">Emily Sellwood</a>, whom he had known since childhood, in the village of <a href="/wiki/Shiplake" title="Shiplake">Shiplake</a>. They had two sons, <a href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallam Tennyson">Hallam Tennyson</a> (b. 11 August 1852)—named after his friend—and Lionel (b. 16 March 1854). </p><p>Tennyson rented <a href="/wiki/Farringford_House" title="Farringford House">Farringford House</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a> in 1853, eventually buying it in 1856.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He eventually found that there were too many <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/star-struck" class="extiw" title="wikt:star-struck">starstruck</a> tourists who pestered him in Farringford, so he moved to <a href="/wiki/Blackdown,_Sussex" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackdown, Sussex">Aldworth</a>, in <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a> in 1869.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he retained Farringford, and regularly returned there to spend the winters. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Break, Break, Break, on thy cold grey Stones, o Sea, a photograph by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. The title is a quote from the 1842 poem."><img alt="Break, Break, Break, on thy cold grey Stones, o Sea, a photograph by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. The title is a quote from the 1842 poem." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg/154px-Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg" decoding="async" width="154" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg/231px-Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg/309px-Break-break-break-reickemeyer.jpg 2x" data-file-width="386" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Break, Break, Break, on thy cold grey Stones, o Sea</i>, a photograph by <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Eickemeyer_Jr." title="Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr.">Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr.</a> The title is a quote from the 1842 <a href="/wiki/Break,_Break,_Break" title="Break, Break, Break">poem</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tennyson with his wife Emily (1813–1896) and his sons Hallam (1852–1928) and Lionel (1854–1886)"><img alt="Tennyson with his wife Emily (1813–1896) and his sons Hallam (1852–1928) and Lionel (1854–1886)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg/165px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg/247px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg/330px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_and_family.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2257" data-file-height="2737" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Tennyson with his wife <a href="/wiki/Emily_Tennyson,_Lady_Tennyson" class="mw-redirect" title="Emily Tennyson, Lady Tennyson">Emily</a> (1813–1896) and his sons <a href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson" title="Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson">Hallam</a> (1852–1928) and Lionel (1854–1886)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Farringford – Lord Tennyson's residence on the Isle of Wight"><img alt="Farringford – Lord Tennyson's residence on the Isle of Wight" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg/200px-Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg/300px-Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg/400px-Farringford_-_Lord_Tennyson%27s_residence_-_c1910_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17296.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="496" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Farringford_House" title="Farringford House">Farringford</a> – Lord Tennyson's residence on the Isle of Wight</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, by George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)"><img alt="Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, by George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg/165px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg/248px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg/331px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_1st_Baron_Tennyson_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2901" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson</i>, by <a href="/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts" title="George Frederic Watts">George Frederic Watts</a> (1817–1904)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poet_Laureate">Poet Laureate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Poet Laureate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred_Tennyson,_Vanity_Fair,_1871-07-22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg/160px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg/240px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg/320px-Alfred_Tennyson%2C_Vanity_Fair%2C_1871-07-22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="1013" /></a><figcaption>Captioned "The Poet Laureate", caricature of Tennyson in <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (British magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i>, 22 July 1871</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1850, after William Wordsworth's death and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Rogers" title="Samuel Rogers">Samuel Rogers</a>' refusal, Tennyson was appointed to the position of <a href="/wiki/Poet_Laureate_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom">Poet Laureate</a>; <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning" title="Elizabeth Barrett Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leigh_Hunt" title="Leigh Hunt">Leigh Hunt</a> had also been considered.<sup id="cite_ref-Batchelor_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Batchelor-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He held the position until his death in 1892, the longest tenure of any laureate. Tennyson fulfilled the requirements of this position, such as by authoring a poem of greeting to <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark" title="Alexandra of Denmark">Princess Alexandra of Denmark</a> when she arrived in Britain to marry the future King <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII" title="Edward VII">Edward VII</a>. In 1855, Tennyson produced one of his best-known works, "<a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)">The Charge of the Light Brigade</a>", a dramatic tribute to the British cavalrymen involved in <a href="/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade" title="Charge of the Light Brigade">an ill-advised charge</a> on 25 October 1854, during the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a>. Other esteemed works written in the post of Poet Laureate include "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" and "Ode Sung at the Opening of the International Exhibition". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred_Tennyson..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Alfred_Tennyson..jpg/170px-Alfred_Tennyson..jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Alfred_Tennyson..jpg/255px-Alfred_Tennyson..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Alfred_Tennyson..jpg/340px-Alfred_Tennyson..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1270" data-file-height="1774" /></a><figcaption><i>Alfred Tennyson</i>, portrait by P. Krämer</figcaption></figure> <p>Tennyson declined a <a href="/wiki/Baronet" title="Baronet">baronetcy</a> offered him by <a href="/wiki/Disraeli" class="mw-redirect" title="Disraeli">Disraeli</a> in 1865 and 1868, finally accepting a <a href="/wiki/Peerage" title="Peerage">peerage</a> in 1883 at <a href="/wiki/Gladstone" class="mw-redirect" title="Gladstone">Gladstone</a>'s earnest solicitation. In 1884 Victoria created him <b>Baron Tennyson</b>, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of <a href="/wiki/Freshwater,_Isle_of_Wight" title="Freshwater, Isle of Wight">Freshwater in the Isle of Wight</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took his seat in the House of Lords on 11 March 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-Parsons_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parsons-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tennyson also wrote a substantial quantity of unofficial political verse, from the bellicose "Form, Riflemen, Form", on the French crisis of 1859 and the <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_Force_(Great_Britain)#Creation_of_the_Volunteer_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Volunteer Force (Great Britain)">Creation of the Volunteer Force</a>, to "Steersman, be not precipitate in thine act/of steering", deploring Gladstone's <a href="/wiki/Home_Rule_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Rule Bill">Home Rule Bill</a>. Tennyson's family were <a href="/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)" title="Whigs (British political party)">Whigs</a> by tradition and Tennyson's own politics fitted the Whig mould, although he would also vote for the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> after the Whigs dissolved.<sup id="cite_ref-Pearsall_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pearsall-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson believed that society should progress through gradual and steady reform, not revolution, and this attitude was reflected in his attitude toward universal suffrage, which he did not outright reject, but recommended only after the masses had been properly educated and adjusted to self-government.<sup id="cite_ref-Pearsall_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pearsall-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon passage of the <a href="/wiki/1832_Reform_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="1832 Reform Act">1832 Reform Act</a>, Tennyson broke into a local church to ring the bells in celebration.<sup id="cite_ref-Pearsall_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pearsall-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a> wrote a play called <i>Freshwater</i>, showing Tennyson as host to his friends <a href="/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron" title="Julia Margaret Cameron">Julia Margaret Cameron</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts" title="George Frederic Watts">G. F. Watts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Colonel <a href="/wiki/George_Edward_Gouraud" title="George Edward Gouraud">George Edward Gouraud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a>'s European agent, made sound recordings of Tennyson reading his own poetry, late in his life. They include recordings of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", and excerpts from "The splendour falls" (from The Princess), "Come into the garden" (from <a href="/wiki/Maud_and_other_poems" class="mw-redirect" title="Maud and other poems">Maud</a>), "Ask me no more", "Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington" and "Lancelot and Elaine". The sound quality is poor, as wax cylinder recordings usually are. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG/200px-Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG" decoding="async" width="200" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG/300px-Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG/400px-Tennyson_in_Arbor.PNG 2x" data-file-width="653" data-file-height="587" /></a><figcaption>Published one year after Tennyson's death, this sketch depicts him sitting in his favourite <a href="/wiki/Arbour_(garden)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arbour (garden)">arbour</a> at <a href="/wiki/Farringford_House" title="Farringford House">Farringford House</a>, his home in the village of <a href="/wiki/Freshwater,_Isle_of_Wight" title="Freshwater, Isle of Wight">Freshwater, Isle of Wight</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Towards the end of his life Tennyson revealed that his "religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and <a href="/wiki/Pandeism" title="Pandeism">pandeism</a>":<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a characteristically Victorian manner, Tennyson combines a deep interest in contemporary science with an unorthodox, even idiosyncratic, Christian belief.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Famously, he wrote in <i>In Memoriam</i>: "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." In <i>Maud</i>, 1855, he wrote: "The churches have killed their Christ". In "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Locksley_Hall_Sixty_Years_After&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (page does not exist)">Locksley Hall Sixty Years After</a>", Tennyson wrote: "Christian love among the churches look'd the twin of heathen hate." In his play, <i><a href="/wiki/Becket_(Tennyson_play)" title="Becket (Tennyson play)">Becket</a></i>, he wrote: "We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may, Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites and private hates with our defence of Heaven". Tennyson recorded in his <i>Diary</i> (p. 127): "I believe in <a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">Pantheism</a> of a sort". His son's biography confirms that Tennyson was an unorthodox Christian, noting that Tennyson praised <a href="/wiki/Giordano_Bruno" title="Giordano Bruno">Giordano Bruno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spinoza" class="mw-redirect" title="Spinoza">Spinoza</a> on his deathbed, saying of Bruno, "His view of God is in some ways mine", in 1892.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tennyson_Monument,_Tennyson_Down,_IW,_UK.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg/200px-Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg/300px-Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg/400px-Tennyson_Monument%2C_Tennyson_Down%2C_IW%2C_UK.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1996" data-file-height="1464" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Tennyson on <a href="/wiki/Tennyson_Down" title="Tennyson Down">Tennyson Down</a>, Isle of Wight</figcaption></figure> <p>Tennyson continued writing into his eighties. He died on 6 October 1892 at Aldworth, aged 83. He was buried at <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A memorial was erected in <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Freshwater" title="All Saints' Church, Freshwater">All Saints' Church, Freshwater</a>. His last words were, "Oh that press will have me now!".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left an estate of £57,206.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tennyson_Down" title="Tennyson Down">Tennyson Down</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tennyson_Trail" title="Tennyson Trail">Tennyson Trail</a> on the Isle of Wight are named after him, and a monument to him stands on top of Tennyson Down. <a href="/wiki/Lake_Tennyson" title="Lake Tennyson">Lake Tennyson</a> in New Zealand's high country, named by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Weld" title="Frederick Weld">Frederick Weld</a>, is assumed to be named after Lord Tennyson.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was succeeded as 2nd Baron Tennyson by his son, <a href="/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson" title="Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson">Hallam</a>, who produced an authorised biography of his father in 1897, and was later the second <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General of Australia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tennyson_and_the_Queen">Tennyson and the Queen</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tennyson and the Queen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert, Prince Consort">Albert, Prince Consort</a>, was largely responsible for Tennyson's appointment as Laureate,<sup id="cite_ref-Batchelor_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Batchelor-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> became an ardent admirer of Tennyson's work, writing in her diary that she was "much soothed & pleased" by reading "<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>" after Albert's death.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The two met twice, first in April 1862, when Victoria wrote in her diary, "very peculiar looking, tall, dark, with a fine head, long black flowing hair & a beard, oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tennyson met her a second time just over two decades later, on 7 August 1883, and the Queen told him what a comfort "In Memoriam A.H.H." had been.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_art_of_Tennyson's_poetry"><span id="The_art_of_Tennyson.27s_poetry"></span>The art of Tennyson's poetry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The art of Tennyson's poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg/170px-Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg/255px-Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg/340px-Ottawa_Public_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2490" data-file-height="2825" /></a><figcaption>Stained glass at <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Public_Library" title="Ottawa Public Library">Ottawa Public Library</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Lampman" title="Archibald Lampman">Archibald Lampman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, Tennyson, <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Moore" title="Thomas Moore">Thomas Moore</a></figcaption></figure> <p>As source material for his poetry, Tennyson used a wide range of subject matter ranging from medieval legends to classical myths and from domestic situations to observations of nature. The influence of <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Romantic_poets" class="mw-redirect" title="Romantic poets">Romantic poets</a> published before and during his childhood is evident from the richness of his imagery and descriptive writing.<sup id="cite_ref-felix_grendon_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-felix_grendon-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also handled rhythm masterfully. The insistent beat of <i>Break, Break, Break</i> emphasises the relentless sadness of the subject matter. Tennyson's use of the musical qualities of words to emphasise his rhythms and meanings is sensitive. The language of "I come from haunts of coot and hern" lilts and ripples like the brook in the poem and the last two lines of "Come down O maid from yonder mountain height" illustrate his telling combination of <a href="/wiki/Onomatopoeia" title="Onomatopoeia">onomatopoeia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alliteration" title="Alliteration">alliteration</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Assonance" title="Assonance">assonance</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>The moan of doves in immemorial elms<br /> And murmuring of innumerable bees. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Tennyson was a craftsman who polished and revised his manuscripts extensively, to the point where his efforts at self-editing were described by his contemporary <a href="/wiki/Robert_Browning" title="Robert Browning">Robert Browning</a> as "insane", symptomatic of "mental infirmity".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His complex compositional practice and frequent redrafting also demonstrates a dynamic relationship between images and words, as can be seen in the many notebooks he worked in.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Few poets have used such a variety of styles with such an exact understanding of <a href="/wiki/Meter_(poetry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Meter (poetry)">metre</a>; like many Victorian poets, he experimented in adapting the <a href="/wiki/Meter_(poetry)#Greek_and_Latin" class="mw-redirect" title="Meter (poetry)">quantitative metres</a> of Greek and Latin poetry to English.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reflects the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian period">Victorian period</a> of his maturity in his feeling for order and his tendency towards moralising. He also reflects a concern common among <a href="/wiki/Victorian_literature" title="Victorian literature">Victorian writers</a> in being troubled by the conflict between religious faith and expanding scientific knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson possessed a strong poetic power, which his early readers often attributed to his "Englishness" and his masculinity.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Well-known among his longer works are <i>Maud</i> and <i>Idylls of the King</i>, the latter arguably the most famous Victorian adaptation of the legend of <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Knights_of_the_Round_Table" title="Knights of the Round Table">Knights of the Round Table</a>. A common thread of grief, melancholy, and loss connects much of his poetry (including <i>Mariana</i>, <i>The Lotos Eaters</i>, <i>Tears, Idle Tears</i>, <i>In Memoriam</i>), possibly reflecting Tennyson's lifelong struggle with debilitating depression.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> T. S. Eliot famously described Tennyson as "the saddest of all English poets", whose technical mastery of verse and language provided a "surface" to his poetry's "depths, to the abyss of sorrow".<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other poets such as <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W. H. Auden</a> maintained a more critical stance, stating that Tennyson was the "stupidest" of all the English poets, adding that: "There was little about melancholia he didn't know; there was little else that he did."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence_on_Pre-Raphaelite_artists">Influence on Pre-Raphaelite artists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Influence on Pre-Raphaelite artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the <a href="/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood" title="Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</a>. In 1848, <a href="/wiki/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti" title="Dante Gabriel Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Holman_Hunt" title="William Holman Hunt">William Holman Hunt</a> made a list of "Immortals", artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, notably including <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">Keats</a> and Tennyson, whose work would form subjects for PRB paintings.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Lady of Shalott</i> alone was a subject for Rossetti, Hunt, <a href="/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse" title="John William Waterhouse">John William Waterhouse</a> (three versions), and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Siddall" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Siddall">Elizabeth Siddall</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tennyson_heraldry">Tennyson heraldry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Tennyson heraldry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Heraldic_achievement" class="mw-redirect" title="Heraldic achievement">heraldic achievement</a> of Alfred, Lord Tennyson exists in an 1884 stained-glass window in the Hall of <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>, showing arms: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Gules, a bend nebuly or thereon a <a href="/wiki/Chaplet_(headgear)" title="Chaplet (headgear)">chaplet</a> vert between three leopard's faces <a href="/wiki/Jessant-de-lys" title="Jessant-de-lys">jessant-de-lys</a> of the second</i>; <a href="/wiki/Crest_(heraldry)" title="Crest (heraldry)">Crest</a>: <i>A <a href="/wiki/Dexter_and_sinister" title="Dexter and sinister">dexter</a> arm in armour the hand in a gauntlet or grasping a broken tilting spear enfiled with a garland of laurel</i>; <a href="/wiki/Supporters_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supporters (heraldry)">Supporters</a>: <i>Two <a href="/wiki/Lions_in_heraldry" class="mw-redirect" title="Lions in heraldry">leopards rampant guardant</a> gules semée de lys and ducally crowned or</i>; Motto: <i>Respiciens Prospiciens</i><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ("Looking backwards (is) looking forwards").</p></blockquote> <p>These are a <a href="/wiki/Difference_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Difference (heraldry)">difference</a> of the arms of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tenison" title="Thomas Tenison">Thomas Tenison</a> (1636–1715), <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury">Archbishop of Canterbury</a>, themselves a difference of the arms of the 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Denys_family" title="Denys family">Denys family</a> of <a href="/wiki/Glamorgan" title="Glamorgan">Glamorgan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siston" title="Siston">Siston</a> in Gloucestershire, themselves a difference of the arms of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_de_Cantilupe" title="Thomas de Cantilupe">Thomas de Cantilupe</a> (c. 1218–1282), <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hereford" title="Bishop of Hereford">Bishop of Hereford</a>, henceforth the arms of the <a href="/wiki/See_of_Hereford" class="mw-redirect" title="See of Hereford">See of Hereford</a>; the name "Tennyson" signifies "Denys's son", although no connection between the two families is recorded. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A list of works by Tennyson follows:<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="//archive.org/details/poemsbytwobrothe00tennuoft/page/n6/mode/2up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:poemsbytwobrothe00tennuoft/page/n6/mode/2up">Poems by Two Brothers</a></i> (published 1826; dated 1827 on title page; written with Charles Tennyson)</li> <li>"Timbuctoo" (for which he won the chancellor's gold medal and was printed in <i>Prolusiones Academicæ</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poems,_Chiefly_Lyrical" title="Poems, Chiefly Lyrical">Poems, Chiefly Lyrical</a></i> (1830), in which the following poems were published:</li> <li>"<a href="//archive.org/details/gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n127/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n127/mode/1up">No More</a>", '"<a href="//archive.org/details/gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n171/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n171/mode/1up">Anacreontics</a>" and "<a href="//archive.org/details/gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n302/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n302/mode/1up">A Fragment</a>" contributed to <a href="//archive.org/details/gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n13/mode/2up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:gemaliteraryann00unkngoog/page/n13/mode/2up"><i>The Gem: A Literary Annual</i> (1831)</a></li> <li><a href="//archive.org/details/sim_englishmans-magazine_1831_1_3/page/591/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:sim englishmans-magazine 1831 1 3/page/591/mode/1up">"Sonnet" (Check every outflash, every ruder sally)</a> in The Englishman's Magazine (August 1831) and later reprinted in <a href="//archive.org/details/friendshipsoffe03unkngoog/page/n59/mode/1up" class="extiw" title="iarchive:friendshipsoffe03unkngoog/page/n59/mode/1up">Friendship's Offering (1833)</a></li> <li><i>Poems</i> (published 1832, but dated 1833 on title page),<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which the following poems were published:</li></ul> <table style="width: 90%; align: left; margin-left: 15px"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Dream_of_Fair_Women" title="A Dream of Fair Women">A Dream of Fair Women</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott" title="The Lady of Shalott">The Lady of Shalott</a>" – the poem's subject was depicted in three paintings (1888, 1894, and 1916) by <a href="/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse" title="John William Waterhouse">John William Waterhouse</a></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lotos-Eaters" title="The Lotos-Eaters">The Lotos-Eaters</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Oenone_(poem)" title="Oenone (poem)">Oenone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Palace_of_Art" title="The Palace of Art">The Palace of Art</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/St._Simeon_Stylites_(poem)" title="St. Simeon Stylites (poem)">St. Simeon Stylites</a>" (1833)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><i>The Lover's Tale</i> (Two parts published in 1833;<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tennyson suppressed it immediately after publication as he felt it was imperfect. A revised version comprising three parts was subsequently published in 1879 together with "The Golden Supper" as a fourth part.)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Rosalinde" (1833; suppressed until 1884)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poems_(Tennyson,_1842)" title="Poems (Tennyson, 1842)">Poems</a></i> (1842; with numerous subsequent editions including the 4th edition (1846) and 8th edition (1853));<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the collection included many of the poems published in the 1833 anthology (some in revised form), and the following:</li></ul> <table style="width: 90%; align: left; margin-left: 15px"> <tbody><tr valign="top"> <td width="50%"> <ul><li>"'<a href="/wiki/Break,_Break,_Break" title="Break, Break, Break">Break, Break, Break</a>'"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Day-Dream" title="The Day-Dream">The Day-Dream</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Dream_of_Fair_Women" title="A Dream of Fair Women">A Dream of Fair Women</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Godiva_(poem)" title="Godiva (poem)">Godiva</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lady_Clara_Vere_de_Vere" title="Lady Clara Vere de Vere">Lady Clara Vere de Vere</a>" (1832)</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Locksley_Hall" title="Locksley Hall">Locksley Hall</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sir_Galahad_(poem)" title="Sir Galahad (poem)">Sir Galahad</a>" (written September 1834)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Two_Voices" title="The Two Voices">The Two Voices</a>" (written 1833–1834)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>" (1833)</li> <li>"The Vision of Sin"</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)" title="The Princess (Tennyson poem)">The Princess: A Medley</a></i> (1847),<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which includes the following poems: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Now_Sleeps_the_Crimson_Petal" title="Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal">Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal</a>" – later appeared as a song in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(2004_film)" title="Vanity Fair (2004 film)">Vanity Fair</a></i> (2004), with musical arrangement by <a href="/wiki/Mychael_Danna" title="Mychael Danna">Mychael Danna</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tears,_Idle_Tears" title="Tears, Idle Tears">Tears, Idle Tears</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam</a></i> (1850),<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which includes the following poem: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ring_Out,_Wild_Bells" title="Ring Out, Wild Bells">Ring Out, Wild Bells</a>" (1850)</li></ul></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Eagle_(poem)" title="The Eagle (poem)">The Eagle</a>" (1851)</li> <li>"The Sister's Shame"<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maud,_and_Other_Poems" title="Maud, and Other Poems">Maud, and Other Poems</a></i> (1855), in which the following poems were published: <ul><li>"Maud"</li> <li>"The Brook; an Idyl"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(poem)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)">The Charge of the Light Brigade</a>" (1854) – an early recording exists of Tennyson reading this</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King" title="Idylls of the King">Idylls of the King</a></i> (1859–1885; composed 1833–1874)</li> <li><i>Enoch Arden and Other Poems</i> (1862/1864), in which the following poems were published: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Enoch_Arden" title="Enoch Arden">Enoch Arden</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tithonus_(poem)" title="Tithonus (poem)">Tithonus</a>"</li> <li>Ode for the Opening of the Exhibition (1862) with music composed by <a href="/wiki/William_Sterndale_Bennett" title="William Sterndale Bennett">William Sterndale Bennett</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>The Holy Grail and Other Poems</i> (1870), in which the following poem was published: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Flower_in_the_Crannied_Wall" title="Flower in the Crannied Wall">Flower in the Crannied Wall</a>" (1869)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Window_(song_cycle)" title="The Window (song cycle)">The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens</a></i> (written 1867–1870; published 1871) – a <a href="/wiki/Song_cycle" title="Song cycle">song cycle</a> with music composed by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan" title="Arthur Sullivan">Arthur Sullivan</a></li> <li><i>Queen Mary: A Drama</i> (1875)<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – a play about <a href="/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England">Mary I of England</a></li> <li><i>Harold: A Drama</i> (1877)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – a play about <a href="/wiki/Harold_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Harold II of England">Harold II of England</a></li> <li><i>Montenegro</i> (1877)</li> <li><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Revenge:_A_Ballad_of_the_Fleet" class="extiw" title="s:The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet">The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet</a></i> (1878) – about the ship <a href="/wiki/English_ship_Revenge_(1577)" title="English ship Revenge (1577)"><i>Revenge</i></a></li> <li><i>Ballads and Other Poems</i> (1880)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Becket_(Tennyson_play)" title="Becket (Tennyson play)">Becket</a></i> (1884)<sup id="cite_ref-gutenberg_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gutenberg-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crossing_the_Bar" title="Crossing the Bar">Crossing the Bar</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Foresters" title="The Foresters">The Foresters</a></i> (1891) – a play about <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> with <a href="/wiki/Incidental_music" title="Incidental music">incidental music</a> by Arthur Sullivan</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chiefess_Kapiolani" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiefess Kapiolani">Kapiolani</a></i> (published after his death by Hallam Tennyson)<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_settings">Musical settings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Musical settings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Michael_William_Balfe" title="Michael William Balfe">Michael William Balfe</a>'s setting of "Come Into the Garden, Maud" was a popular success in 1857, as sung by the celebrated tenor <a href="/wiki/Sims_Reeves" title="Sims Reeves">Sims Reeves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Somervell" title="Arthur Somervell">Arthur Somervell</a>'s <i>Maud</i> (1898) used thirteen poems (not all of them complete) for his song cycle, enough "to retain a cogent narrative".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Banfield" title="Stephen Banfield">Stephen Banfield</a> believes it is "the nearest an English composer ever came to writing a substantial, Romantic song-cycle".<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Charles_Villiers_Stanford" title="Charles Villiers Stanford">Charles Villiers Stanford</a> set "Crossing the Bar" for high voice and piano in April 1880, a year after the poem has been first published.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Maude_Val%C3%A9rie_White" title="Maude Valérie White">Maude Valérie White</a> (four songs, 1885) and <a href="/wiki/Liza_Lehmann" title="Liza Lehmann">Liza Lehmann</a> (10 songs, 1899) both composed song cycles selecting passages from <i>In Memoriam</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Quilter" title="Roger Quilter">Roger Quilter</a> set "Now sleeps the crimson petal" (from <i>The Princess</i>) for voice and orchestra in 1905. "The splendour falls on castle walls" (also from <i>The Princess</i>), has been set by many composers, including <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Bax" title="Arnold Bax">Arnold Bax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Gibbs" title="Armstrong Gibbs">Cecil Armstrong Gibbs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Holst" title="Gustav Holst">Gustav Holst</a>, Stanford, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Vaughan Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Wood_(composer)" title="Charles Wood (composer)">Charles Wood</a>. Tennyson deplored the use of unauthorised repetition in song settings, a device used by many composers, and so tried to circumvent this by supplying his own, as in "Break, Break, Break" (set by <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lanier" title="Sidney Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a> in 1871 and <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Rootham" title="Cyril Rootham">Cyril Rootham</a> in 1906), and the repetition of "dying" in "The splendour falls", which as <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Hold" title="Trevor Hold">Trevor Hold</a> points out, "has been a god-send to every composer who has set it".<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tennyson's "Ulysses" was quoted in the 2012 <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Skyfall" title="Skyfall">Skyfall</a></i>, with the character <a href="/wiki/M_(James_Bond)" title="M (James Bond)">M</a> (played by actress <a href="/wiki/Judi_Dench" title="Judi Dench">Judi Dench</a>) reciting the poem.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Skyfall_(soundtrack)" title="Skyfall (soundtrack)">film's soundtrack</a> also included an accompanying track, composed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Newman" title="Thomas Newman">Thomas Newman</a>, that is titled "Tennyson."<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 September</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=MOVIE+MUSIC+UK&rft.atitle=SKYFALL+%E2%80%93+Thomas+Newman&rft.date=2012-11-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmoviemusicuk.us%2F2012%2F11%2F20%2Fskyfall-thomas-newman%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfred%2C+Lord+Tennyson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_bibliography">General bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: General bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1989). <i>Tennyson: A Selected Edition</i>. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif: University of California Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520065883" title="Special:BookSources/0520065883">0520065883</a> (hbk.) or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520066669" title="Special:BookSources/0520066669">0520066669</a> (pbk.). Edited with a preface and notes by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Ricks" title="Christopher Ricks">Christopher Ricks</a>. Selections from the definitive edition <i>The Poems of Tennyson</i>, with readings from the Trinity MSS; long works such as <i><a href="/wiki/Maud_(poem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maud (poem)">Maud</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A._H._H." class="mw-redirect" title="In Memoriam A. H. H.">In Memoriam A. H. H.</a></i> are printed in full.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGosse1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Edmund_William_Gosse" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund William Gosse">Gosse, Edmund William</a> (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Tennyson,_Alfred_Tennyson,_1st_Baron">"Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron" </a></span>. In <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 630–634.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Tennyson%2C+Alfred+Tennyson%2C+1st+Baron&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=630-634&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rft.aulast=Gosse&rft.aufirst=Edmund+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfred%2C+Lord+Tennyson" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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class="sister-link"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson" class="extiw" title="c:Alfred Tennyson">Media</a> from Commons</span></li><li><span class="sister-logo"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/23px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/35px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/46px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></span></span></span><span class="sister-link"><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" class="extiw" title="q:Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Quotations</a> from Wikiquote</span></li><li><span class="sister-logo"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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href="https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Alfred+Lord+Tennyson">Works by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson</a> at <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Tennyson%2C%20Lord%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Lord%20Tennyson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Tennyson%2C%20Lord%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Lord%20Tennyson%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Tennyson%2C%20L%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22Lord%20Tennyson%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Tennyson%2C%20Lord%22%20OR%20description%3A%22Lord%20Tennyson%22%29%20OR%20%28%221809-1892%22%20AND%20Tennyson%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29">Works by or about Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://librivox.org/author/487">Works by Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a> at <a href="/wiki/LibriVox" title="LibriVox">LibriVox</a> (public domain audiobooks) <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/15px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/23px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/30px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/alfred-lord-tennyson">Alfred Lord Tennyson: Profile and Poems at Poets.org</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130523211353/http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1570">Recording of Tennyson reciting "The Charge of the Light Brigade"</a></li> <li>Archival material at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7383">Leeds University Library</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Alfred_Tennyson">Settings of Alfred Tennyson's poetry in the Choral Public Domain Library</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Institutional collections of works</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll76">Baron Alfred Tennyson</a> digital collection from the <a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a> at The University of Texas at Austin.</li> <li><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.tennyson" class="extiw" title="hdl:10079/fa/beinecke.tennyson">Alfred Tennyson Collection</a>. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.</li> <li>A substantial <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/special-collections/explore/collection/tennysons-works">collection of Tennyson's works</a> are held at Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bl.uk/people/alfred-lord-tennyson">Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a> at the British Library</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/tennyson">Tennyson's Notebooks</a> in the collections of the <a href="/wiki/Wren_Library" title="Wren Library">Wren Library</a>, fully digitised in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Digital_Library" title="Cambridge Digital Library">Cambridge Digital Library</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=38">The Twickenham Museum – Alfred Lord Tennyson in Twickenham</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110316000117/http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=38">Archived</a> 16 March 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Additional biographical information</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliam_Paton_Ker1909" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/W._P._Ker" title="W. P. Ker">William Paton Ker</a> (1909), <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tennyson:_the_Leslie_Stephen_lecture" class="extiw" title="s:Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture">Tennyson: the Leslie Stephen lecture: Delivered in the senate house, cambridge on 11 November 1909</a></i> (1st ed.), Cambridge: <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/WDQ_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="WDQ (identifier)">Wikidata</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107398701" class="extiw" title="d:Q107398701">Q107398701</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tennyson%3A+the+Leslie+Stephen+lecture%3A+Delivered+in+the+senate+house%2C+cambridge+on+11+November+1909&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1909&rft.au=William+Paton+Ker&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfred%2C+Lord+Tennyson" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeslie1898" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stephen" title="Leslie Stephen">Leslie, Stephen</a> (1898). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:en:Studies of a Biographer/Life of Tennyson"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Studies_of_a_Biographer/Life_of_Tennyson">"Life of Tennyson" </a></span>. <i>Studies of a Biographer</i>. Vol. 2. London: Duckworth and Co. pp. 196–240.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Life+of+Tennyson&rft.btitle=Studies+of+a+Biographer&rft.place=London&rft.pages=196-240&rft.pub=Duckworth+and+Co.&rft.date=1898&rft.aulast=Leslie&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfred%2C+Lord+Tennyson" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnonymous1873" class="citation book cs1">Anonymous (1873). "Alfred Tennyson". <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cartoon_portraits_and_biographical_sketches_of_men_of_the_day/Alfred_Tennyson"><i>Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day</i></a>. Illustrated by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Frederick_Waddy" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Frederick Waddy">Frederick Waddy</a>. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 78–84<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 January</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Alfred+Tennyson&rft.btitle=Cartoon+portraits+and+biographical+sketches+of+men+of+the+day&rft.place=London&rft.pages=78-84&rft.pub=Tinsley+Brothers&rft.date=1873&rft.au=Anonymous&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FCartoon_portraits_and_biographical_sketches_of_men_of_the_day%2FAlfred_Tennyson&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlfred%2C+Lord+Tennyson" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theotherpages.org/poems/poem-st.html#tennyson">Tennyson index entry at Poets' Corner</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Other works</dt></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/tennyson.htm">Tennyson's Grave, Westminster Abbey</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.farringford.co.uk">Farringford 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(poem)">Oenone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mariana_in_the_South" title="Mariana in the South">Mariana in the South</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Miller%27s_Daughter_(poem)" title="The Miller's Daughter (poem)"><i>The Miller's Daughter</i></a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Claribel_(poem)" title="Claribel (poem)">Claribel</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Oriana" title="The Ballad of Oriana">The Ballad of Oriana</a>"</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px;padding-left: 0.5em;"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg/86px-Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg" decoding="async" width="86" height="100" class="mw-file-element" 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title="A Dream of Fair Women">A Dream of Fair Women</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Godiva_(poem)" title="Godiva (poem)">Godiva</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/St._Agnes_(poem)" title="St. Agnes (poem)">St. Agnes</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Clare" title="Lady Clare">Lady Clare</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King" title="Idylls of the King">Idylls of the King</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." title="In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam A.H.H.</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Lady_Clara_Vere_de_Vere" title="Lady Clara Vere de Vere">Lady Clara Vere de Vere</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Locksley_Hall" title="Locksley Hall">Locksley Hall</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Now_Sleeps_the_Crimson_Petal" title="Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal">Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Poems_(Tennyson,_1842)" title="Poems (Tennyson, 1842)">Poems</a></i> (1842)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Palace_of_Art" title="The Palace of Art">The Palace of Art</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_(Tennyson_poem)" title="The Princess (Tennyson poem)">The Princess</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sir_Galahad_(poem)" title="Sir Galahad (poem)">Sir Galahad</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/St._Simeon_Stylites_(poem)" title="St. Simeon Stylites (poem)">St. Simeon Stylites</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_and_Low_(poem)" title="Sweet and Low (poem)">Sweet and Low</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tears,_Idle_Tears" title="Tears, Idle Tears">Tears, Idle Tears</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Two_Voices" title="The Two Voices">The Two Voices</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Crossing_the_Bar" title="Crossing the Bar">Crossing the Bar</a>"</li> <li>"<a 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