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Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892)

Nationality: BritishPeriods: British: 19th Century

writer of Idylls of the King, poet laureate in 1850

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Alfred Lord Tennyson: An Overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennyov.html
Contains a variety of information on Tennyson and his times. Included are a biography, links to full text works, and themes, structure, and genre in his work.
Contains: Pictures, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Full Bio
From: Victorian Web
Keywords: victorianism, poetry
 
The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold
http://www.victorianweb.org/books/alienvision/contents.html
Looks at the cultural influences on the imagy evoked in the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold.
Contains: Criticism
Author: E. D. H. Johnson
From: The Victorian Web Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952
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Tennyson and Cholera
http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/winter97/platizky.htm
This anaylsis of Tennyson writings looks at how, “In examining, however, thesurprisingly few references Tennyson makes to cholera in his collected writings, one discovers the poet�s reaction most often to be detached and defensive rather thanempathetic or consolatory, as if he were trying to ward off the disease by emphasizing its otherness instead of identifying with its universality. “
Contains: Criticism
Author: Roger S. Platizky
From: Victorian Poetry Volume 35, no. 4, Winter 1997
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Tennyson’s Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/kincaid/contents.htm…
Book-length critical work that explores the uses of comedy and irony in the poems of Tennyson.
Contains: Criticism
Author: James R. Kincaid
From: The Victorian Web New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975
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The Tennysons
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#2
This lengthy analysis of the authors’ lives and work includes sections on “Tennyson�s early poems”, “The Princess”, “Idylls of the King”, “Dramas and later poems and ballads”, ”Charles Tennyson” and “Frederick Tennyson.”
Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography
Author: Herbert J. C. Grierson
From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II
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Biographical sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Brief Biography
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennybio.html
This brief biography looks at Tennyson’s personal life as well as his literary achievements.
Contains: Extensive Bio
Author: Glenn Everett
From: Victorian Web
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Tennyson’s Life: A Timeline
http://CHARON.SFSU.EDU/TENNYSON/TENNCHRON.HTML
This chronology focuses on Tennyson’s publishing history.
Contains: Pictures, Timeline
Author: Arthur Chandler
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Other sites about Lord Alfred Tennyson

Tennyson Bibliography
http://charon.sfsu.edu/tennyson/bibliography.html
This very brief bibliography covers general biography and criticism of Tennyson as well as a few critical books on The Idylls of the King.
Contains: Bibliography
Author: Carol-An de Naissance
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