Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)
Born in August 1809 at Somersby, Lincolnshire. He is best known as a successful poet laureate, appointed after the publication of In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850), a series of elegiac poems written over seventeen years inspired by the death of Arthur Hallam. His ambitious national project resulted in producing a sequence of twelve narrative poems based on the Arthurian legend, Idylls of the King (1859-85). Wide-ranging in subject and in style, the poet evolved himself to the end of his literary carrier; above all, he excelled in experimenting with various genres such as lyrics, narrative poems, domestic idylls, elegies, dramas, and ballads. His experimental ballads gain a distinct charm by skilfully mixing the ancient spirit of the traditional ballads with the poet’s individual sensibility and his peculiar sense of modernity. (Y. Y.)
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Edward Gray
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The Goose
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King Charles’s Vision
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Lady Clare
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The Lady of Shalott
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The Lord of Burleigh
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Mariana
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Mariana in the South
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The Revenge
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The Sisters
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1600〜1739
