Alfred Tennyson

Florence is full of great people, so called, from England, and the real sommites are coming, such as Alfred Tennyson, and, with an interval, Dickens and Thackeray.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

The English press likes to poke fun at the long list of unworthies buried in Poets' Corner, but it holds the remains of many giants of English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling.

John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

The English press likes to poke fun at the long list of unworthies buried in Poets' Corner, but it holds the remains of many giants of English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling.

John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

The English press likes to poke fun at the long list of unworthies buried in Poets' Corner, but it holds the remains of many giants of English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling.

John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

As he devours a young man alive, the protagonist of Glen Duncan's forthcoming novel, "The Last Werewolf," thinks of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Mariana."

The Season of the Supernatural Alexandra Alter 2011

And yet these hybrid books, with their crafted themes and dramatic arcs that no messy real life could follow, have given me an intimate sense of such figures as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Emily Dickinson.

Melville's stormy seas Ron Charles 2010

And yet these hybrid books, with their crafted themes and dramatic arcs that no messy real life could follow, have given me an intimate sense of such figures as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Emily Dickinson.

Melville's stormy seas Ron Charles 2010

Alfred Tennyson, too, found hope in the New Year in his great (and sad) poem "In Memoriam," which mourned the death of his good friend Arthur Henry Hallam.

John Lundberg: Poets Find Hope In The New Year 2010

The first poet you know, Alfred Tennyson, but it's unlikely you know this weird chapter of his life: Around 1840, depressed by the death of a close friend, Tennyson visited High Beach and formed a disastrous partnership with Dr. Allen.

Book review of 'The Quickening Maze' by Alan Foulds 2010

From the age of twelve on, Alfred Tennyson was home-schooled by his fierce, crazy father.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009