Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a prominent 19th-century British poet who served as Poet Laureate and became one of the most celebrated voices of the Victorian age.


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instanceOf British writer
Victorian poet
human
poet
awardReceived peerage of the United Kingdom
burialPlaceSection Poets' Corner
causeOfDeath gout
influenza
child Hallam Tennyson
Lionel Tennyson
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1809-08-06
dateOfDeath 1892-10-06
describedAs one of the most popular English poets of the Victorian era
educatedAt Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup English
familyName Tennyson
father George Clayton Tennyson
fullName Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
genre poetry
givenName Alfred
hasCanonizedName Tennyson
honorificTitle Lord
influenced Rudyard Kipling
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Hardy
influencedBy Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Cambridge Apostles
mother Elizabeth Fytche
movement Romanticism
Victorian literature
nobleTitle 1st Baron Tennyson
nominatedBy William Gladstone
notableWork Break, Break, Break
Crossing the Bar
Idylls of the King
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Locksley Hall
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Lady of Shalott
Ulysses
occupation Poet Laureate
poet
peerageCreated 1884
period 19th century
placeOfBirth Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
placeOfBurial Westminster Abbey
placeOfDeath Lurgashall, Sussex, England
positionHeld Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
religion Christianity
Church of England
residence Aldworth, Surrey
Farringford House, Isle of Wight
sibling Charles Tennyson Turner
Frederick Tennyson
signature Alfred Lord Tennyson signature image
spouse Emily Tennyson

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John Keats ("Alfred Tennyson")
William Wordsworth ("Alfred Tennyson")
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Battle of Balaclava
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("Tennyson")
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson")
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Tennyson Spencer Crowe ("Tennyson")
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson ("Tennyson")
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Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Lady of Shalott (painting) ("Alfred Tennyson")
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Alfred ("Alfred Tennyson")
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Poets’ Corner ("Alfred Tennyson")
notableBurial
Victorian era
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The Apostles ("Alfred Tennyson")
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Ticknor and Fields ("Alfred Tennyson")
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