Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Some critics described Tennyson as overly sentimental. However, his poems proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends
with Arnold Bennett, J. M. Barrie, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, L. Frank Baum, Mary Hunter Austin, Sir Walter Scott, Eleanor H. Porter, Edward Everett Hale, Cecil Frances Alexander, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Coolidge, Ben Jonson, Martin Luther, Katharine Pyle, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Big Christmas Basket: 200+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems & Carols
with Booker T. Washington, J. M. Barrie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Eleanor H. Porter, Edward Everett Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Katharine Pyle
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with R.S. Gwynn, George Herbert, Robert Burns and Ben Jonson