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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (/ ˈ t ɛ n ɪ s ən /; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria 's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu".
Idylls of the King, published between 1859 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.
Tennyson's poem was set to music by Joseph Barnby (published 1880). The painting by Burne-Jones is referred to in the prose poem König Cophetua by the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), a long poem by Ezra Pound. The painting has a symbolic role in a short novel Le Roi Cophetua by the French writer Julien ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Ulysses, published in 1842, has been called the first true dramatic monologue. After Ulysses, Tennyson's most famous efforts in this vein are Tithonus, The Lotos-Eaters, and St. Simon Stylites, all from the 1842 Poems; later monologues appear in other volumes, notably Idylls of the King.
In 133 cantos, including the prologue and the epilogue, Tennyson uses the stylistic beats of tetrameter to address the subjects of spiritual loss and themes of nostalgia, philosophic speculation, and Romantic fantasy in service to mourning the death of his friend, the poet A. H. Hallam; thus, in Canto IX, Tennyson describes the return of the ...
Maud is only seventeen by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Maud, and Other Poems (1855) was Alfred Tennyson's first published collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850.. Among the "other poems" was "The Charge of the Light Brigade", which had already been published in the Examiner a few months earlier.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson [201] [175] "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Pete Seeger: The Book of Ecclesiastes from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament: Notably covered by The Byrds; Takes its lyrics from chapter three of the Book of Ecclesiastes [202] "T'Was Her Hunger Brought Me Down" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Anny Celsi: Sister ...
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" The Millstone: Margaret Drabble: Bible: Matthew 18:6: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: Agatha Christie: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" Moab Is My Washpot: Stephen Fry: Bible: Psalm 60:8 The Monkey's Raincoat: Robert Crais: Matsuo Bashō, Sarumino: Monstrous Regiment: Terry ...