“The poet can scarcely be judged with fairness in one age or another. He…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The poet can scarcely be judged with fairness in one age or another. He must abide the judgment of the ages.”

Recognising that literary reputations require the perspective of time · Written acknowledgement in the Memoir

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…

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