Alfred Lord Tennyson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Lord Alfred Lord Tennyson

Author Name:

Lord Alfred Lord Tennyson

Born As:

Alfred Tennyson

Other Names:

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Born:

6 Aug 1809

Died:

6 Oct 1892




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Selected Works:

The Dying Swan - 1830
The Kraken - 1830
Mariana - 1830
Lady Clara Vere de Vere - 1832

The Lotos-Eaters - 1833
The Lady of Shalott - 1832, 1842

Locksley Hall - 1842
Tithonus - 1842
The Two Voices - 1834
Ulysses - 1833

The Princess - 1847
Tears, Idle Tears

In Memoriam A.H.H. - 1849
Ring Out, Wild Bells - 1850
The Charge of the Light Brigade - 1854 - an early recording exists of Tennyson reading this
Maud - 1855/1856
Enoch Arden - 1862/1864
Flower in the crannied wall - 1869
The Window - Song cycle with Arthur Sullivan. - 1871

Harold - 1876 - began a revival of interest in King Harold
Idylls of the King - composed 1833-1874
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After - 1886
Crossing the Bar - 1889
The Foresters - a play with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan - 1891.                                              
Mother Elizabeth Fytche
Father George Clayton Tennyson, Alfred being the fourth of twelve children.