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Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated…
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politics · British Poet Laureate (1809–1892) · poet · politician · writer · also Alfred Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Born 6 August 1809 · Died 6 October 1892 · Q173869
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2025· 1 entry
2022· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Alfred Tennyson
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Mark Francois reading Tennyson, and other reasons to keep politicians away from poetry | Zoe Williams
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
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1897· 1 entry
And was later the second Governor-General of Australia
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1892· 2 entries
Died 1892-10-06.
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“I am a part of everything with which I come in contact”
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1886· 1 entry
“Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen”
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1884· 1 entry
Queen Victoria created him Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight
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1879· 1 entry
Together with "The Golden Supper" as a fourth part
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1871· 1 entry
And Cyril Rootham in 1906), and the repetition of "dying" in "The splendour falls", which as Trevor Hold points out, "has been a god-send to every composer who has set it"
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1865· 1 entry
And 1868, finally accepting a peerage in 1883 at William Ewart Gladstone's earnest solicitation
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1857· 1 entry
As sung by the celebrated tenor Sims Reeves
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1855· 2 entries
Tennyson produced one of his best-known works, "The Charge of the Light Brigade", a dramatic tribute to the British cavalrymen involved in an ill-advised charge on 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War
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“Christian love among the churches look”
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1854· 1 entry
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
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1850· 3 entries
Career landmark: Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1850–1892).
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That Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, finally publishing his masterpiece, In Memoriam A
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After Wordsworth's death and Samuel Rogers' refusal, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Leigh Hunt had also been considered
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1848· 1 entry
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt made a list of "Immortals", artistic heroes whom they admired, especially from literature, notably including John Keats and Tennyson, whose work would form subjects for PRB
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1840· 1 entry
And lived for a time at Chapel House, Twickenham
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1833· 1 entry
Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which notably included the first version of "The Lady of Shalott"
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1829· 2 entries
Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu"
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Was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu"
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1827· 1 entry
Where he joined a secret society called the Cambridge Apostles
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1809· 1 entry
Born 1809-08-06.
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