Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS, much better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language.
Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In Memoriam A.H.H. was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and fellow student at Trinity College, Cambridge, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister, but died from a cerebral hemorrhage before they were married. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, Ulysses, and Tithonus. During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.
Tennyson wrote a number of phrases that have become commonplaces of the English language, including: "Nature, red in tooth and claw", "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new". He is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare.1
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Poems
230 editions - first published in 1827 Read -
Idylls of the King
102 editions - first published in 1859 Read -
Enoch Arden
36 editions - first published in 1864 Read -
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson
34 editions - first published in 1867 Read -
Poems by Alfred Tennyson
28 editions - first published in 1833 Read -
Maud: and other poems
24 editions - first published in 1855 Read -
Select poems
19 editions - first published in 1890 Read -
Queen Mary: a drama
19 editions - first published in 1875 Read -
The Holy Grail: and other poems.
18 editions - first published in 1870 Read -
The works of Tennyson
14 editions - first published in 1868 Read -
The works of Alfred Tennyson
14 editions - first published in 1870 Read -
Harold: a drama
14 editions - first published in 1877 Read -
Unpublished early poems
14 editions - first published in 1925 -
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
12 editions - first published in 1900 -
Gareth and Lynette
12 editions - first published in 1872 Read -
The works of Tennyson, annotated
12 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
The Princess: A Medley
11 editions - first published in 1848 Read -
The May queen
11 editions - first published in 1861 Read -
Becket and Other Plays
11 editions - first published in 1888 -
Enoch Arden, &c
10 editions - first published in 1864 Read -
Song of the brook: With illus. by A.F. Bellows [and others]
10 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
The poetic and dramatic works of Alfred lord Tennyson
10 editions - first published in 1898 Read -
Poetical works: including the plays
10 editions - first published in 1870 Read -
The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem.
10 editions - first published in 1881 Read -
Works
9 editions - first published in 1878 Read -
A dream of fair women
9 editions - first published in 1880 Read -
Maud, and other poems
9 editions - first published in 1855 Read -
Queen Mary and Harold
9 editions - first published in 1892 -
Selections from Tennyson
8 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate, etc.
8 editions - first published in 1861 Read -
The Tennyson Archive
8 editions - first published in 1987 -
Demeter and other poems
8 editions - first published in 1889 Read -
Guinevere
8 editions - first published in 1800 Read -
Ballads and other poems
8 editions - first published in 1880 Read -
Poems published in 1842
7 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
The life and works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Elaine
7 editions - first published in 1867 Read -
The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson
7 editions - first published in 1981 -
Poems of Tennyson, 1830-1870
6 editions - first published in 1912 -
Poems, chiefly lyrical
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Tennyson's The princess: a medley
6 editions - first published in 1896 Read -
Tennyson's suppressed poems: now for the first time
6 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The charge of the Light Brigade
6 editions - first published in 1927 -
The coming of Arthur
6 editions - first published in 1891 -
Vivien
6 editions - first published in 1867 -
Poems, 1832-1842
6 editions - first published in 1950 -
The Cup and the Falcon
6 editions - first published in 1884 Read -
Lancelot and Elaine
5 editions - first published in 1895 Read -
Tiresias, and other poems
5 editions - first published in 1885 Read -
Poems of Tennyson
5 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Poems and plays
5 editions - first published in 1965 -
The poetical works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
5 editions - first published in 1887 Read -
The miller's daughter
5 editions - first published in 1858 Read -
Out-of-doors with Tennyson: selections from the poems of Alfred lord Tennyson illustrative of pastoral life and scenes
5 editions - first published in 1890 Read -
In Memoriam, Maud, and Other Poems
5 editions - first published in 1975 -
Poems of Alfred Tennyson ..: poet-laureate of England.
5 editions - first published in 1853 Read -
The last tournament
5 editions - first published in 1872 Read -
The complete works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
5 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
The Foresters: Robin Hood And Maid Marian
5 editions - first published in 1892 -
The day-dream: With numerous original illus. by W. St. John Harper
5 editions - first published in 1885 Read -
The death of Oenone, Akbar's dream, and other poems
5 editions - first published in 1892 Read -
Enoch Arden, and other poems
5 editions - first published in 1887 Read -
Ring out, wild bells: from "In memoriam"
5 editions - first published in 1883 Read -
Selected Idylls of the king: The coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The passing of Arthur
4 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
The devil and the lady: Edited by Charles Tennyson, his grandson.
4 editions - first published in 1930 -
The works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate
4 editions - first published in 1873 Read -
The lotos-eaters
4 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Enoch Arden, etc.
4 editions - first published in 1864 -
Beauties of Tennyson: Illustrations by Frederic B. Schell.
4 editions - first published in 1865 Read -
The complete works of Alfred Tennyson: including Queen Mary, Harold, and The ballad of the fleet.
4 editions - first published in 1870 -
Enid
4 editions - first published in 1868 Read -
Poems of imagination and fancy
4 editions - first published in 1865 Read -
Alfred Tennyson: In memoriam, Maud and other poems
4 editions - first published in 1900 -
The princess and Maud
4 editions - first published in 1888 -
Works, annotated: Edited by Hallam Lord Tennyson.
4 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
Locksley Hall: Day dream, and other poems
4 editions - first published in 1869 Read -
The poems and plays of Alfred Lord Tennyson
4 editions - first published in 1938 Borrow -
The poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4 editions - first published in 1950 -
The lover's tale
4 editions - first published in 1879 Read -
Queen Mary: A Drama
3 editions - first published in 1875 Read -
Seven poems & two translations
3 editions - first published in 1902 -
The foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian
3 editions - first published in 1892 Read -
Locksley hall sixty years after
3 editions - first published in 1886 Read -
Representative poems
3 editions - first published in 1941 -
Tennyson for the young
3 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's men and women
3 editions - first published in 1898 Read -
Selections from the poems of Tennyson: with parts of the Idylls of the king. Ed. with an introd by Myra Reynolds.
3 editions - first published in 1905 Read -
Ode on the death of the duke of Wellington
3 editions - first published in 1852 Read -
Lancelot And Elaine And Other Idylls Of The King
3 editions - first published in 1896 Read -
The Tennyson birthday book
3 editions - first published in 1883 -
Poetry & prose: with criticisms by the Quarterly review, Fitzgerald [and others]
3 editions - first published in 1947 -
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, The Promise of May, Tiresias and Other Poems
3 editions - first published in 2001 -
Aylmer's field: With introd. and notes by W.T. Webb.
3 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
Select poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3 editions - first published in 1885 Read -
Suppressed poems: Including the prize poem "Timbuctoo" and the original (1833) version of "The lover's tale." Edited by J.C. Thomson
3 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The complete poetical works of Tennyson
3 editions - first published in 1898 Read -
Idylls of the King, and other Arthurian poems
3 editions - first published in 1968 -
Select poems of Alfred Tennyson: with memoir, introduction and annotations
3 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
Tennyson's poems
3 editions - first published in 1881 -
Lady Clare: a ballad
3 editions - first published in 1884
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833),
Robert Browning (1812-1889),
King Arthur,
Mary I Queen of England (1516-1558),
Aethelwold Earl of East Anglia (d. 962),
Alexandra Queen, consort of Edward VII, King of Great Britain (1844-1925),
Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (1809-1892),
Arthur Wellesley Wellington Duke of (1769-1852),
Edgar King of England (943 or 4-975),
Hallam Tennyson, baron, 1852-1928, ed Tennyson,
Lynd Ward (1905-),
Maitland Armstrong Edey (1910-),
Mary I queen of England (1516-1558),
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888),
Victoria Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901),
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