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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Tennyson, Alfred, Baron Tennyson. The great English poet; born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, Aug. 6, 1809; died at Aldworth House, Surrey, Oct. 6, 1892. He published, with his brother Charles, a volume entitled ‘Poems of Two Brothers’ (1827). In 1829 he won the chancellor’s gold medal for the prize poem ‘Timbuctoo’; in 1830 appeared his first book, ‘Poems, Chiefly Lyrical’; in 1832 the first volume containing still recognized masterpieces; in 1850 ‘In Memoriam’; the same year he was appointed poet-laureate to succeed Wordsworth. ‘The Princess’ was published in 1847; ‘Maud and Other Poems’ in 1855; ‘The Idylls of the King’ in 1859; ‘Enoch Arden’ and ‘The Holy Grail’ in 1869; ‘Queen Mary’ in 1875; ‘Harold’ in 1876; ‘The Cup’ in 1884; ‘Tiresias’ in 1885, ‘Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,’ etc., in 1886; ‘The Foresters’ and the collection ‘Death of Œnone’ in 1892. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).