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Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1909-1892
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Tennyson Tennyson was a massive and versatile poet, “the voice and sometimes... the conscience” of his age. Today, many critics consider Tennyson to be the greatest poet of the Victorian Age, admired for both his control of language and his ability to evoke a sense of longing and loss.
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Background Born on August 6, 1809. at Somersby, U.K. 3rd son of a rector who prepared his sons for Cambridge. All made ventures in poetry, and even published.
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Cambridge Tennyson attended Trinity College, Cambridge Invited to join The Apostles, an undergraduate club. This group included his lifelong friends. Most important friendship was with Arthur Hallam. He and Tennyson knew each other for only four years, but their intense friendship had a major influence on the poet. Tennyson was devastated by Hallam’s death in 1833 when he was only 22 and refused to publish for the next 9 years. He did, however, continue to write and poured his grief into his best poetry, including In Memoriam.
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Published in 1850 Tennyson’s greatest poem a collection of elegies for Hallam; it presents his struggle with Hallam’s death and with the new developments in astronomy, biology, and geology that were diminishing man’s stature in the universe. After publication of this poem, Tennyson was named the nation’s Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria as, replacing Wordsworth who had just passed away. In Memoriam
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His Major 1842 Poems Established Tennyson’s career as a writer This volume includes: “The Lady of Shalott,” “The Lotus Eaters,” and “Ulysses.”
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Tennyson In 1883, Tennyson was made baron and thus added the title Lord to his name. He was the first poet ever to be made a noble. Tennyson was established as the most popular poet of the Victorian period.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson He seems not one sort of poet, but two or three: PictorialLyric Humorous, or Speculative.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tennyson gives us perfections in single poems, single stanzas, often in single lines or even in evocative phrases. His narrative skill makes many of his poems many of his poems interesting just as stories. interesting just as stories.
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Themes in Tennyson’s Poetry The divided self Links external scenery to interior states of mind. The historical past The mythological past Tennyson’s personal past Geological time and evolutionary history Social and political concerns (Psychological Realism)
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