The complete online text of The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson.

More than any other Victorian writer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be—with Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Gladstone—one...

More than any other Victorian writer, Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be--with Queen Victoria and Gladstone--one of the three most famous living persons, a rep...

Alfred Lord Tennyson has the dubious honor of being one of the most critically disputed great poets in the English language. The very term "Tennysonian" has taken on, in many quarters, the negative complaint of sentimentality, conservatism, too-easy rhym...

As a young child, Alfred Tennyson received an education in Greek and Latin literature that was unusually rigorous, even by the standards of the early nineteenth century. In the years before he was sent to Louth Grammar School and later to Trinity College,...

The poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Lord Tennyson is analyzed within the context of a distinct motif in the pastoral elegy, the locus amoenus meaning the pleasant or happy place. It is argued that Tennyson's use of various loci led to his realization that...