Alfred Tennyson
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Tennyson enjoyed great success with his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' & afterwards he composed a series of twelve more poems on the Arthurian theme. 'Idylls of the King' traces the story of Arthur's rule, from the finding of Excalibur to his death & the destruction of his kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Alfred Lord Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1850 and elevated to the peerage as Baron Tennyson in 1884. He is buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. This is a collection of the best of his poems.
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Lord Alfred Tennyson was the major poet of his age. In 1850, he succeeded William Wordsworth as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, and this book begins and ends with Tennyson's direct contacts with the Queen, whom Tennyson had first came to know at audience at an Osborne House on the Isle of Wight in 1862.