Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was an English poet and one of the most popular poets of the Victorian Era. He was the longest-serving Poet Laureate of England, a position he enjoyed from 1852 ...

When we discovered Tennyson, what impressed us was that when he, too, was relatively young, he had lost his friend, which had led him to write his poem ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’.

Alfred Tennyson’s passionate book-length elegy was once among the most popular poems in English. Today, it shows us how soulful art can stir us to life and stave off banality.

Sinn Fein, in pulling down the Assembly, might carefully ponder the prescient words of Lord Alfred Tennyson in the following verse from his poem In Memoriam in relation to their own "slowly dying ...