Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892 was an English poet. He was the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his number one pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his number one solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" together with "Mariana", which carry on some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were target in this volume. Although included by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular in addition to brought Tennyson to a attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and effective visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Tennyson also excelled at short lyrics, such(a) as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such(a) as "Ulysses", although "In Memoriam A.H.H." was calculation to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student at Trinity College, Cambridge, after he died of a stroke at the age of 22. Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus". During his career, Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success.
A number of phrases from Tennyson's clear have become commonplace in the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" "In Memoriam A.H.H.", "'Tis better to take loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs non to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and non to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old sorting changeth, yielding place to new". He is the ninth almost frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.