ALFRED LORD

TENNYSON
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
• Born in Sombersy Lincolnshire on August 6th, 1809
• Unstable family, history of mental disorders
• Events in his life led to worry about financial issues
• Attended Trinity College, Cambridge, but left before he completed his
degree.
• His first work was published in 1827
• In 1850, he became the Poet Laureate of Great Britain
 Style

• His writings were typically of longer length and grandeur.

• Parallel syntax, repetition, active grammar
• Full of experiments--ballads, sonnets, blank verse
• Various allusions to other poets
• uses many allusions to historic events and mythology
• Poet of Sensations
Tennyson wrote about
• war,
• politics,
• religion,
• sadness,
• death,
• nature
TENNYSON’S MAJOR WORKS 
•  “Break,Break,Break”
• “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
• “Tears, Idle Tears“
• "Crossing the Bar”
• “Ulysses”
• “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
• “Idylls of the King”
• “Tithonus”