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…
“A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and the good in all change; lovely in her youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.”
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Devotional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Sorrow
Frederick Tennyson was born on 5 June 1807 at Somersby rectory in Lincolnshire, the eldest child of the Reverend George Clayton Tennyson and Elizabeth Fytche Tennyson. He died on 26 February 1898, at Belle Vue House in Jersey, aged ninety. The dates of his life place him almost exactly within the long Victorian century, though his sensibility was formed earlier, amid the unsettled intellectual climate of the Regency…
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Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
