![]() It has only brief excerpts of what now seem his most interesting works, In Memoriam and Maud, and omits things like The Two Voices and The Vision of Sin – both major but dark – altogether. However this selection, made in 1941, majors on his narrative, Arthurian pieces: 60 pages of Enid, 30 of The Holy Grail, 20 of Guinevere. Nevertheless it’s a masterly creation of an atmosphere, which as TS Eliot said was Tennyson’s strength. It’s a poem where you get the general idea, but its specifics need a bit of explanation: what is the Bar? Why should it ‘moan’? And why hasn’t Tennyson already met his Pilot, before putting out to sea? His godson Hallam, and perhaps the man himself, thought it the best thing he had ever done. he died in 1892 at the age of 83 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.Īpparently Tennyson asked that Crossing the Bar should be placed at the end of any anthology of his work, and this selection respects his wish. Tennyson continued to write poetry throughout his life and in the 1870s also wrote a number of plays. ![]() He was the first Englishman to be granted such a high rank solely for literary distinction. In 1884, as a great favourite of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was raised to the peerage and was thereafter known as Baron Tennyson of Aldworth. They had two children, Hallam born in 1852 and Lionel, two years later. In 1850, following William Wordsworth, Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate and married his childhood friend, Emily Sellwood. In 1833, Tennyson's best friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to his sister, died, inspiring some of his best work including In Memoriam, Ulysses and the Passing of Arthur. His second book, Poems Chiefly Lyrical was published in 1830. In 1816 Tennyson was sent to Louth Grammar School, which he disliked so intensely that from 1820 he was educated at home until at the age of 18 he joined his two brothers at Trinity College, Cambridge and with his brother Charles published his first book, Poems by Two Brothers the same year. Alfred Tennyson, invariably known as Alfred Lord Tennyson on all his books, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of the twelve children of George Tennyson, clergyman, and his wife, Elizabeth.
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