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Alfred Tennyson

Born

in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England

August 06, 1809

Died

October 06, 1892

Genre

Poetry, Drama

Influences

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Works, including In Memoriam in 1850 and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in 1854, of Alfred Tennyson, first baron, known as lord, appointed British poet laureate in 1850, reflect Victorian sentiments and aesthetics.

Elizabeth Tennyson, wife, bore Alfred Tennyson, the fourth of twelve children, to George Tennyson, clergyman; he inevitably wrote his books. In 1816, parents sent Tennyson was sent to grammar school of Louth.

Alfred Tennyson disliked school so intensely that from 1820, home educated him. At the age of 18 years in 1827, Alfred joined his two brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with Charles Tennyson, his brother, published Poems by Two Brothers , his book, in the same year.

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Average rating: 4.07 · 64,239 ratings · 3,071 reviews · 2,201 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lady of Shalott 4.19 avg rating — 20,071 ratings — published 1833 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Idylls of the King 3.97 avg rating — 10,592 ratings — published 1885 — 863 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennyson's Poetry by Alfred Tennyson, Robert W. Hill Jr. (editor) 4.07 avg rating — 8,064 ratings — published 1833 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Memoriam 4.07 avg rating — 4,768 ratings — published 1850 — 537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems 4.07 avg rating — 3,402 ratings — published 1870 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Charge of the Light Brigade 4.10 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 1854 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ulysses 4.13 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 1842 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tennyson: Poems by Alfred Tennyson, Peter Washington (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 701 ratings — published 1892 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetical Works: Tennyson 4.18 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1892 — 458 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson 4.33 avg rating — 497 ratings — published 1879 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Alfred Tennyson (?)

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

21919 likes

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

15982 likes

“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year

4707 likes

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Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

60 votes, 9.2%

Edgar Allan Poe

53 votes, 8.1%

Sylvia Plath

32 votes, 4.9%

William Shakespeare

28 votes, 4.3%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 3.8%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

25 votes, 3.8%

William Blake (write-in)

22 votes, 3.4%

William Butler Yeats

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.5%

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16 votes, 2.5%

Alfred Tennyson

14 votes, 2.1%

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7 votes, 1.1%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

7 votes, 1.1%

Charles Baudelaire

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You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)

7 votes, 1.1%

I don't have one

7 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

6 votes, 0.9%

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5 votes, 0.8%

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Jim Morrison (write-in)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

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Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

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James Joyce (write-in)

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Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)

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Clement Clarke Moore

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stephen Vincent Benét

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Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

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John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

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Alfred Noyes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Robert Service (write-in)

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Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

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Tracy K. Smith (write-in)

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Big L

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Cemal Süreya

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Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz

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