Paradis | October 19, 2009
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Paradis | October 18, 2009
There is more faith in an honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Paradis | October 15, 2009
For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see; Saw the Visions of the World, and all the wonder that there will be…
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Paradis | October 12, 2009
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England in 1809. He studied at Cambridge where he met his close friend Arthur Hallam, and he published his first poetry in 1829, but it was not well received. Two of Tennyson’s major poems wereThe Lady of Shalott and The Lotus-eaters. The Princess published in 1847, supported women’s rights and was liked by the public.
His major poetic achievement was, In Memoriam (1850) the elegy mourning the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, which took him 17 years to complete.In that same year he succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate
1850 also saw Tennyson marry his love, Emily Sellwood, whom he had been waiting to marry since 1836. They bought a home and farm in Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight and had three children.
Tennyson spent the later years of his life creating a series of 12 Arthurian poems called Idylls of the King including Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere He was made a baron in 1884.
Tennyson died on Oct. 6, 1892 and is buried in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.
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