Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
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Short Name: Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Full Name: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Birth Year: 1809
Death Year: 1892

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, son of the Rev. G. C. Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, was born at Somersby, Aug. 6, 1809; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; appointed Poet Laureate in 1850, and raised to the Peerage in 1884. Although Lord Tennyson has not written any hymns, extracts from his poems are sometimes used as such, as "Strong Son of God, immortal Love" (Faith in the Son of God), from the Introduction to his In Memoriam, 1850; the well-known "Too late, too late, ye cannot enter now," and others. The former is sometimes given as "Spirit of immortal Love," and again as "Eternal God, immortal Love."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although described by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Texts by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (34)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
You say, but with no touch of scornBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)3
Who loves not knowledge? who shall railAlfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author)English2
Whatever crazy sorrow saithBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English2
What does little birdie sayTennyson (Author)English9
Thy voice is on the rolling airAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
The wish that of the living wholeAlfred Tennyson (Author)3
The time draws near the birth of ChristAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
That which we dare invoke to blessAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English2
Sweet and low, sweet and low, wind of the western seaTennyson (Author)English20
Sunset and evening starAlfred Tennyson (Author)English153
Strong Son of God, immortal LoveAlfred Tennyson (Author)English135
Sleep sweetly, tender heartAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
Sent, sent, sa sent, och natten mork och kallAlfred Tennyson (Author)Swedish4
Schon ist es spät und dunkel ist die NachtAlfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author)German2
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skyAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English97
Ring out the old, ring in the newAlfred Tennyson (Author)English54
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that here we see no moreAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English4
Ring out a slowly dying causeTennyson (Author)English2
Perplext in faith, but pureAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
O young mariner, you from the havenAlfred Tennyson (Author)English6
O yet we trust that somehow goodAlfred Tennyson (Author)English11
O living Will, that shalt endureBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English3
Not in vain the distance beaconsAlfred Tennyson (Author)English8
PrayersAlfred Lord Tennyson ()English1
Love is and was my Lord and KingTennyson (Author)English6
Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chillAlfred Tennyson (Author)English41
I found him not in world or sunAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
I am a part of all that I have metAlfred Tennyson (Author)2
How pure in [at] heart and sound in headTennyson (Author)English5
Do we indeed desire the deadTennyson (Author)2
Deep on the convent roof the snowsAlfred Tennyson (Author)English3
Contemplate all this work of TimeAlfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author)English2
Break, break, break! O break on thy cold gray stonesTennyson (Author)English2
أيها ذي الأجراس نادي وناديAlfred Tennyson (Author)Arabic1

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