Alfred Lord Tennyson — a remark

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“As a general rule, however, I think it wisest in a man to do his work in the world as quietly and as well as he can, without much heeding the praise or the dispraise.”

Advocating conscientious work without dependence on public approval · Public letter on his eightieth birthday, 1889

About Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6 August 1809–6 October 1892

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…

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