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"Break, Break, Break" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842. The poem is an elegy that describes Tennyson's feelings of loss after Arthur Henry Hallam died
c. 1901 illustration to the poem by W. E. F. Britten
Break, Break, Break, On The Cold Grey Stones O Sea…, watercolour by Alfred Downing Fripp
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron
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
Break, Break, Break
…Tennyson's feelings of melancholy and nostalgia. Tennyson captures his strong emotions in other poems, including Morte D' Arthur, "Tithonus", and "Ulysses". The suffering felt within the poem is connected to the suffering described in Tennyson's In Memoriam, in that they both describe longing for Tennyson's…
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.