Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was an English poet. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829 he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambrid
Tennyson in the late 1860s
An illustration by William Edward Frank Britten showing Somersby Rectory, where Tennyson was raised and began writing
Statue of Lord Tennyson in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
John William Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott, 1888 (Tate Britain, London)
Ulysses (poem)
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"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written in 1833 when Tennyson was 24 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted p
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
…The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as "Ulysses" and "The Lotos-Eaters". "In Memoriam A.H.H." was written to commemorate his friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and student at Trinity College…
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, author of "Ulysses", portrayed by George Frederic Watts
The death of Arthur Henry Hallam, a young poet and close friend of Tennyson, was devastating for him.
A Roman mosaic depicting a maritime scene with Odysseus (Ulysses), from Carthage, 2nd century AD
In one of William Blake's watercolors (1824–1827) illustrating Dante's Inferno, Ulysses and Diomedes are condemned to the Eighth Circle.