“I think public opinion much more likely to be influenced by steady firm action than by much talking and writing.”
About 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…