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 (35)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
أيها ذي الأجراس نادي وناديAlfred Tennyson (Author)Arabic0
Break, break, break! O break on thy cold gray stonesTennyson (Author)English1
Contemplate all this work of TimeAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English1
Deep on the convent roof the snowsAlfred Tennyson (Author)English2
Do we indeed desire the deadBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)1
How pure in [at] heart and sound in headBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English4
I am a part of all that I have metBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)1
I found him not in world or sunBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English1
Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chillAlfred Tennyson (Author)English40
Love is and was my Lord and KingTennyson (Author)English5
PrayersAlfred Lord Tennyson ()English1
Not in vain the distance beaconsAlfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892 (Author)English8
O yet we trust that somehow goodAlfred Tennyson (Author)English10
O living Will, that shalt endureA. Tennyson (Author)English2
O young mariner, you from the havenBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English5
Perplext in faith, but pureAlfred Tennyson (Author)English1
Ring out a slowly dying causeTennyson (Author)English1
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that here we see no moreAlfred Tennyson, 1809-92 (Author)English3
Ring out the old, ring in the newAlfred Tennyson (Author)English54
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild skyAlfred Tennyson (Author)English98
Schon ist es spät und dunkel ist die NachtAlfred Tennyson (Author)German1
Sent, sent, sa sent, och natten mork och kallAlfred Tennyson (Author)Swedish3
Sleep sweetly, tender heartAlfred Tennyson (Author)English1
Strong Son of God, immortal LoveAlfred Tennyson (Author)English137
Sunset and evening starAlfred Tennyson (Author)English183
Sweet and low, sweet and low, wind of the western seaAlfred Tennyson (Author)English20
That which we dare invoke to blessAlfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author)English1
The time draws near the birth of ChristAlfred Tennyson (Author)English1
The wish that of the living wholeAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English2
Thy voice is on the rolling airAlfred Tennyson (Author)English1
ReadingsAlfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) (Author)English1
What does little birdie sayBaron Tennyson Alfred Tennyson (Author)English8
Whatever crazy sorrow saithAlfred Tennyson (Author)English1
Who loves not knowledge? who shall railAlfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson (Author)English1
You say, but with no touch of scornAlfred, Lord Tennyson (Author)English2

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