Algernon Charles Swinburne. Lewis Carroll. Edward Lear. Robert Bridges. Lewis Carroll Renowned Victorian author Lewis Carroll is known for his comic fantasies and humorous, childlike Edward Lear The British poet Edward Lear's poems can be characterized by his irreverent view of the world. He enrolled in Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter.
Teach This Poem. Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Read Stanza. Privacy Policy. As Poet Laureate, Tennyson represented the literary voice of the nation and, as such, he made occasional pronouncements on political affairs.
In , Tennyson published the first four Idylls of the King, a group of twelve blank-verse narrative poems tracing the story of the legendary King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. He dedicated most of the last fifteen years of his life to writing a series of full-length dramas in blank verse, which, however, failed to excite any particular interest. In , at the age of 83, he died of heart failure and was buried among his illustrious literary predecessors at Westminster Abbey.
Although Tennyson was the most popular poet in England in his own day, he was often the target of mockery by his immediate successors, the Edwardians and Georgians of the early twentieth century.
It teeters on sentimentality and overblown rhetorical emotion too much for some modern readers , but behind the public poem is a heartfelt personal grief.
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred …. He wrote the poem on 2 December in response to an article in The Times about the battle, and the poem was published in The Examiner a week later. You can listen to Tennyson reading the poem here.
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea …. In other words, at the end of the journey of life, one will see the person responsible for seeing one through the voyage: God the Pilot, whom Christians believe they will see in heaven.
With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The poem, partly inspired by Arthurian legend hence the presence of the knight, Lancelot and partly by the epic sixteenth-century poem The Faerie Queene written by Edmund Spenser, has been read variously as an allegory about the world of fancy and the world of reality, and as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, with the idyllic world of magic and legend which Tennyson depicts being threatened by the arrival of new forces.
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world …. In and , they together toured Europe. In , Hallam died suddenly, and his death had greatly affected Tennyson. Tennyson published his first solo collection of Poems, Chiefly Lyrical , in In , he published another collection Poems. He became engaged to Emily Sellwood in In , Tennyson published two volumes that received tremendous critical views and success.
In a succession of Wordsworth, he became the Poet Laureate. He married Emily Sellwood in the same year and had two sons: Lionel and Hallam. Tennyson, through his poetry, had gained a reputation as one of the popular poets of the Victorian era. He earned more than 10, pounds annually from his poetry, which allowed him to buy a house of his own in the country and write in isolation.
He was largely criticized for his appearance: a large bearded man, regularly wearing a cloak and a large hat. Tennyson published the first collection of Idylls of the Kings in The book had sold more than copies in a single month. He accepted the title in and became Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He died on 6 th October and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is mainly known as the most illustrative poet of the 19 th century Victorian age.
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