The Princess: Sweet and Low
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Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809–1892
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Family & Ancestors, Living, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Activities, Travels & Journeys, Nature, Relationships, Infancy
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
More than any other Victorian writer, Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be—with Queen Victoria and Gladstone—one of the three most famous living persons, a reputation no other poet writing in English has ever had. As official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria, he felt called upon to celebrate a quickly changing industrial and . . .
Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Living, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Activities, Travels & Journeys, Nature, Relationships, Infancy
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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