And then there’s Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). The more one knows of poetry, the higher the unwilling estimation of Tennyson rises. The more one sands away the edges to expose the core of ...

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, ...

This second sample from Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (Simon & Schuster UK, £9.99) is in total contrast to yesterday’s. Erica Jong chooses Lord Tennyson’s classic piece on the restrictions ...

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great poem, Ulysses. Show more ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's long poem In Memoriam.In 1850, shortly before his appointment as Poet Laureate, Tennyson published a work which many critics regard as ...

The poetic words of Alfred Lord Tennyson will be engraved in the 2012 Olympic village. But what other notable expressions can be attributed to Tennyson? The last line of Tennyson's monologue ...

This second sample from Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (Simon & Schuster UK, £9.99) is in total contrast to yesterday’s. Erica Jong chooses Lord Tennyson’s classic piece on the restrictions ...