Alfred Lord Tennyson

Unquestionably one of the greatest voices in English poetry, Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote verse of unequalled majesty and profound lyrical strength, becoming Poet Laureate in 1850. But his position as the Victorians' favorite poet masks his subtlety and complexity. The poems collected here show the range of his styles and the astonishing quality of his finest work, lines, verses, even entire poems have become an integral part of the English language, not just its literature.