Author Series 6
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign
His first poem, “Timbuktu”
First solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. ("Claribel" and "Mariana", were included in this volume)
Excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar".
Verses based on classical mythological themes - "Ulysses", “Tithonus”
"In Memoriam A.H.H." - written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Other poems - Crossing the Bar , "Locksley Hall", Maud; A Monodrama, "Idylls of the King". "The Lotos-Eaters"
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