A portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, by Samuel Laurence and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, circa 1840. Wikimedia Commons Alfred Tennyson’s 1833 poem “Ulysses”, was, he tells us, written under a sense of loss ...

Tennyson described 'In Memoriam' as ‘rather the cry of the whole human race than mine’, and the poem achieved widespread acclaim as soon as it was published in 1850, cited by Queen Victoria as her ...

It's sometimes hard to believe how famous Tennyson once was. As Mick Imlah has it in his wry and plangent poem, In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson: "No one remembers you at all." But in his day the ...

It's not every day you get veteran actress Helen Mirren reading one of the greatest poetic works of the 19th century - and all because she wanted to make a late-night talk show host cry. So, does it ...

In “The Boundless Deep,” Richard Holmes explores the forces that formed the young Alfred Tennyson. By Catherine Nicholson Catherine Nicholson is a professor of English at Yale University. When you ...