Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, first Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – half dozen Gregorian calendar month 1892) was laureate of nice GB|kingdom} and Ireland throughout abundant of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one in all the foremost widespread British poets.[2]

Tennyson excelled at verbal creation short lyrics, like "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the sunshine Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". abundant of his verse was supported classical mythological themes, like Ulysses, though In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow author and student at Trinity school, Cambridge, when he died of a stroke aged simply twenty two.[3] Tennyson conjointly wrote some notable verse form together with Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". throughout his career, Tennyson tried drama, however his plays enjoyed very little success. variety of phrases from Tennyson's work became commonplaces of nation language, together with "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (In Memoriam A.H.H.), "'Tis higher to possess white-haired and lost / Than ne'er to possess white-haired at all", "Theirs to not reason why, / Theirs however to try and do and die", "My strength is because the strength of 10, / as a result of my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and to not yield", "Knowledge comes, however knowledge lingers", and "The recent order changeth, yielding place to new". he's the ninth most often quoted author within the Oxford wordbook of Quotations.

His father, martyr Clayton Tennyson (1778–1831), was curate of Somersby (1807–1831), conjointly curate of Benniworth (1802–1831) and Bag Enderby, and vicar of Grimsby (1815). Rev. martyr Clayton Tennyson raised an outsized family and "was a person of superior skills and varied attainments, World Health Organization tried his hand with truthful success in design, painting, music, and poetry. He was well rich for a rustic spiritual leader and his shrewd cash management enabled the family to pay summers at Mablethorpe and Skegness on the jap coast of England". male monarch Tennyson's mother, Elizabeth Fytche (1781–1865), was the girl of author Fytche (1734–1799), vicar of St. James Church, Louth (1764) and curate of Withcall (1780), atiny low village between Horncastle and Louth. Tennyson's father "carefully attended to the education and coaching of his children".

Tennyson and 2 of his elder brothers were writing poetry in their teens and a set of poems by all 3 was printed domestically once male monarch was solely seventeen. one in all those brothers, Charles Tennyson Turner, later married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's future wife; the opposite was Frederick Tennyson. Another of Tennyson's brothers, Edward Tennyson, was institutionalised at a personal asylum.

Tennyson was a student of Louth synchronic linguistics college for four years (1816–1820)[6] and so attended Scaitcliffe college, Englefield inexperienced and King King of Great Britain synchronic linguistics college, Louth. He entered Trinity school, Cambridge, in 1827, wherever he joined a association referred to as the Cambridge Apostles.[7] A portrait of Tennyson by martyr Frederic Watts is in Trinity's assortment.[8]

At Cambridge, Tennyson met Arthur Henry Hallam and William Henry Brookfield, World Health Organization became his nearest friends. His initial publication was a set of "his immature rhymes and people of his elder brother Charles" entitled Poems by 2 Brothers, printed in 1827.[6]

In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's ribbon at Cambridge for one in all his initial items, "Timbuktu".[9][10] Reportedly, "it was thought to be no slight honour for a young man of twenty to win the chancellor's gold medal".[6] He printed his initial solo assortment of poems, Poems mainly Lyrical in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", that later took their place among Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were enclosed during this volume. though decried by some critics as excessively sentimental, his verse presently established widespread and brought Tennyson to the eye of well-known writers of the day, together with prophet Taylor Samuel Taylor Coleridge.