Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not. Maybe he wanted the line to go faster — more like “Ring-out-wild-bells.” Not sure. Anyway, this poem has ... damn near the most beautiful thing ...

In a column earlier this month, I had occasion to mention Leopardi — Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet (1798–1837) — and his most famous poem ... launched into Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the most important poets of the Victorian ... He published his first poems while still a student at Cambridge. Here he spent perhaps the happiest years of his ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...

In this episode, writer and rapper Testament and poet Jane Weir, compare the context, form and themes of the poems The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Poppies by Jane Weir.