Alfred Tennyson, later Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 at Somersby rectory in Lincolnshire, England, and died on 6 October 1892 at Lurgashall in Sussex. During his long life he became the defining poetic voice of the Victorian age: at once a public laureate who wrote for national occasions and a private, searching poet whose work returned obsessively to bereavement, desire, religious uncertainty, mem…
“It is hard to believe in God; but it is harder not to believe. I believe in God, not from what I see in Nature, but from what I find in man.”
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Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Sorrow
George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron Byron, born 22 January 1788 and dead on 19 April 1824, was at once a dazzling poet, a public celebrity before the modern age had fully invented celebrity, an aristocrat uneasy in his rank, an exile, a political speaker, a lover of freedom, and a man whose private conduct generated lasting pain as well as endless fascination. Known to the world as Lord Byron, he became one of the centr…
“The great object of life is sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
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Dramatic Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets, Political Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
