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5. Alfred Tennyson won Chancellor’s Gold Medal at the age of 20. He got the Chancellor gold medal in 1829 at Cambridge for his piece “Timbuctoo.”. Except for Alfred, no one at the age of 20 was succeeded to win the chancellor’s gold medal. 6. Alfred Tennyson wrote a poem for his best friend.
Tennyson was the grand old man of Victorian poetry, holding the Laureateship for 42 years and famous for In Memoriam A.H.H. , The Idylls of The King and Maud, and Other Poems – the last of which includes “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”. He was born at Somersby Rectory, near Lincoln in 1809, the fourth of 12 children, and taught by his ...
8 de mai. de 2024 · And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. The Wye is hush'd nor moved along, And hush'd my deepest grief of all, When fill'd with tears that cannot fall, I brim with sorrow drowning song.
More than any other Victorian-era 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 Prime Minister William Gladstone—one of the three most famous living persons,...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was the most famous poet of the Victorian era, renowned for his dramatically powerful subjects and highly-wrought melodious style. Among his most celebrated works are ‘ The Lady of Shalott ’ (1842), ‘ Ulysses ’ (1842), In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854) and Maud (1855).
Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, the fourth in a family of twelve children. His father entered the ministry unwillingly, forced into the profession out of financial necessity. Having a rich Aunt and Uncle made Tennyson worry about money for most of his life; not to mention that poetry was not the most promising profession financially in Victorian England.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 6 August 1809 – d. 6 October 1892) is one of Lincolnshire's most famous figures. He remains the longest serving Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, having held the position for 42 years. Still one of Britain's most loved poets, Tennyson is the ninth most quoted author in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations with many ...
